THE FULL LOGICAL RULESET (PART OF THE RULEKEEPOR'S MONTHLY REPORT) These rulesets are also online at http://agoranomic.org/ruleset/ Date of this ruleset: 22 Jun 2025 Last SLR ratification: 19 Nov 2024 ruleset on 3 May 2025 Number of rules currently enacted: 134 Highest ID'd rule in this ruleset: 2701 Highest ID'd Proposal Passed: 9228 Highest ID'd Rule Enacted: 2701 The header of each rule is formatted as Rule NNNN/R (Power=P), where NNNN is the ID number of the rule, R is the revision of the rule, and P is the power of the rule. This header is then followed by the title of the rule. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Table of Contents: The Game of Agora * Rule 101: The Game of Agora * Rule 1698: Agora Is A Nomic Players * Rule 869: How to Join and Leave Agora * Rule 478: Fora * Rule 2139: The Registrar * Rule 1789: Cantus Cygneus * Rule 2646: Activity * Rule 2678: Expectations of Participation * Rule 2679: Restrictions on Participation General Definitions * Rule 2152: Mother, May I? * Rule 2509: Agoran Numbers * Rule 2125: Regulated Actions * Rule 1023: Agoran Time * Rule 1728: Tabled Actions * Rule 2124: Performing Tabled Actions * Rule 2518: Determinacy * Rule 2505: Random Choices * Rule 2681: Acting on Commitment Entities * Rule 1586: Definition and Continuity of Entities * Rule 2162: Switches * Rule 1688: Power * Rule 2140: Power Controls Mutability Proposals * Rule 2350: Proposals * Rule 2625: Proposal Recycling * Rule 2606: Proposal Classes * Rule 1607: Distribution * Rule 2137: The Assessor * Rule 106: Adopting Proposals Rules & Regulations * Rule 2141: Role and Attributes of Rules * Rule 217: Interpreting the Rules * Rule 1030: Precedence between Rules * Rule 2240: No Cretans Need Apply * Rule 105: Rule Changes * Rule 2493: Regulations * Rule 2486: The Royal Parade * Rule 1051: The Rulekeepor * Rule 1681: The Logical Rulesets * Rule 2221: Cleanliness and Tidy Filing * Rule 2429: Bleach * Rule 2614: Eclipse Light Voting * Rule 693: Agoran Decisions * Rule 107: Initiating Agoran Decisions * Rule 2528: Voting Methods * Rule 683: Voting on Agoran Decisions * Rule 208: Resolving Agoran Decisions * Rule 955: Determining the Will of Agora * Rule 879: Quorum * Rule 2422: Voting Strength * Rule 2127: Conditional Votes * Rule 2168: Extending the Voting Period * Rule 1950: Decisions with Adoption Indices * Rule 2034: Vote Protection and Cutoff for Challenges Offices & Reporting * Rule 1006: Offices * Rule 2630: The Administrative State * Rule 2651: The Election Cycle * Rule 2154: Election Procedure * Rule 2573: Impeachment * Rule 2160: Deputisation * Rule 2689: Vacations & Delegation * Rule 2691: Sortition Procedure * Rule 2138: The Associate Director of Personnel * Rule 2472: Office Incompatibilities * Rule 2143: Reports and Duties * Rule 2677: Etiquette * Rule 2667: Succumbing to Time * Rule 2632: Complexity * Rule 2603: Default Recordkeepors * Rule 2379: No News Is Some News * Rule 2698: Recordkeepors * Rule 2616: The Webmastor * Rule 417: The Archivist Documents * Rule 1551: Ratification * Rule 2202: Ratification Without Objection * Rule 2201: Self-Ratification Justice * Rule 2555: Blots * Rule 2556: Penalties * Rule 2478: Justice * Rule 2676: Forgiveness * Rule 2531: Defendant's Rights Calls for Judgement * Rule 991: Calls for Judgement * Rule 591: Delivering Judgements * Rule 911: Motions and Moots * Rule 2175: Judicial Retraction and Excess * Rule 2492: Recusal * Rule 2246: Submitting a CFJ to the Referee Obligations & Contracts * Rule 2471: No Faking * Rule 2450: Pledges * Rule 2466: Acting on Behalf * Rule 2618: Promises * Rule 2519: Consent * Rule 1742: Contracts * Rule 2608: The Notary Assets * Rule 2166: Assets * Rule 2576: Ownership * Rule 2577: Asset Actions * Rule 2578: Fungibility * Rule 2579: Fee-based Actions Economics * Rule 2659: Stamps * Rule 2701: Stamp Scamp * Rule 2499: Welcome Packages * Rule 2585: Birthday Gifts * Rule 2690: Spendies * Rule 2699: Contests * Rule 2700: Candles Scoring * Rule 2656: Radiance Victory * Rule 2449: Winning the Game * Rule 2465: Victory by Apathy * Rule 2553: Win by Paradox Awards * Rule 2438: Ribbons * Rule 2480: Festivals * Rule 2481: Festival Restrictions * Rule 649: Patent Titles * Rule 2415: Badges * Rule 1367: Degrees * Rule 2231: Order of the Hero of Agora Nomic * Rule 2581: Official Patent Titles * Rule 2582: Annual Awards Leaders * Rule 103: The Speaker * Rule 104: First Speaker * Rule 2423: First Among Equals * Rule 2463: Motion of No Confidence * Rule 2451: Executive Orders * Rule 2575: The Distributor Agoran Culture * Rule 2327: Read the Ruleset Week * Rule 2686: Ratify the Ruleset Week * Rule 1727: Happy Birthday * Rule 2464: Tournaments * Rule 2566: Free Tournaments * Rule 2495: The Birthday Tournament * Rule 1769: Holidays * Rule 2029: Town Fountain * Rule 2694: Hats * Rule 2683: The Boulder * Rule 2695: The Veblen ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Power Distribution: 1 with Power=0.3 3 with Power=0.5 32 with Power=1 5 with Power=1.5 5 with Power=1.7 24 with Power=2 1 with Power=2.2 1 with Power=2.5 52 with Power=3 3 with Power=3.1 1 with Power=3.14 2 with Power=3.2 1 with Power=3.3 3 with Power=4 ======================================================================== The Game of Agora This section includes a few rules concerning the Nature of the Game of Agora. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rule 101/17 (Power=4) The Game of Agora Agora is a game of Nomic, wherein Persons, acting in accordance with the Rules, communicate their game Actions and/or results of these actions via Fora in order to play the game. The game may be won, but the game never ends. Please treat Agora Right Good Forever. History: Initial immutable rule 101, Agora's birth Mutated from MI=unanimity to MI=3 by P1480, 15 Mar 1995 Amended(1) by P3915 'General Cleanup' (harvel), 27 Sep 1999 Amended(2) by P4833 'Tension makes a tangle' (Maud), 06 Aug 2005 Amended(3) by P4866 'Constitutional Repeals 2.0' (G.), 27 Aug 2006 Amended(4) by P4867 'Judicial Reform 2.0' (G.), 27 Aug 2006 Amended(5) by P4887 'Periodic Spell Check' (Murphy), 22 Jan 2007 Amended(6) by P4944 'allow Speaker deregistration' (Zefram), 03 May 2007 Amended(7) by P5090 'fix judicial rights' (Zefram), 25 Jul 2007 Amended(8) by P5731 'Loss of Privileges' [disi.] (G.), 08 Oct 2008 Retitled by P5769 'Protecting Rights' (G.), 17 Oct 2008 Amended(9) by P5769 'Protecting Rights' (G.), 17 Oct 2008 Amended(10) by P5773 'R101 Tidy' (G.), 17 Oct 2008 Amended(11) by P6028 'Allow conversion of sentences' (Murphy), 08 Jan 2009 Amended(12) by P6158 'Rule Change Rights' (G.), 31 Mar 2009 Amended(13) by P6589 'Clarify R101 deregistration' [green, disi.] (omd), 06 Dec 2009 Amended(14) by P7183 'Only Some Persons' (G.), 26 Feb 2012 Amended(15) by P7596 'a new right' (omd), 14 Sep 2013 Retitled to 'The Game of Agora' by P7614 'Just Not Rights' (G.), 13 Jan 2014 Amended(16) by P7614 'Just Not Rights' (G.), 13 Jan 2014 Amended(17) by P7743 'Agora Wins Forever' (G.), 12 May 2015 Power changed from 3 to 4 by P7889 'Agora Protection Act' (Aris), 26 Sep 2017 Annotations: CFJ 24: Players must obey the Rules even in out-of-game actions. CFJ 825 (called 07 Nov 1995): Players must obey the Rules even if no Rule says so. CFJ 1848 (called 21 Dec 2007): The game must operate according to the rules that prevail at the time, and not attempt to incorporate any retroactive changes made in the future. CFJ 1709 (called 26 Jul 2007): The rules are binding on all those who play the game in the broader sense, regardless of whether they have the rule-defined status of "player". CFJ 1911-1914 (called 18 Mar 2008): Physical realities supersede the Rules by default. CFJ 3839 (called 03 Jun 2020): The game of Agora cannot end now; whether it will ever do so cannot be ascertained. CFJ 2515 (called 08 May 2009): Failure to 'Please treat Agora Right Good Forever' can be a rules violation in extreme circumstances. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rule 1698/7 (Power=4) Agora Is A Nomic Agora is ossified if it is IMPOSSIBLE for any reasonable combination of actions by players to cause arbitrary rule changes to be made and/or arbitrary proposals to be adopted within a real-world (UTC) four-week period. If, but for this rule, the net effect of a proposal would cause Agora to become ossified, or would cause Agora to cease to exist, it cannot take effect, rules to the contrary notwithstanding. If any other single change or inseparable group of changes to the gamestate would cause Agora to become ossified, or would cause Agora to cease to exist, it is cancelled and does not occur, rules to the contrary notwithstanding. History: Enacted by P3465 (Steve), 26 Apr 1997 Retitled by P5536 'Refactor Regulation' (Murphy), 07 Jun 2008 Amended(1) by P5536 'Refactor Regulation' (Murphy), 07 Jun 2008 Amended(2) by P7075 'Proposals are Atomic' (Alexis), 16 Jun 2011 Amended(3) by P7088 'Refactor 2, 3, 283' (omd), 23 Jul 2011 Amended(4) by P7628 'Secure Ending the Game' (ais523), 07 Apr 2014 Amended(5) by P7889 'Agora Protection Act' (Aris), 26 Sep 2017 Power changed from 3 to 4 by P7889 'Agora Protection Act' (Aris), 26 Sep 2017 Amended(6) by cleaning (Murphy), 03 Mar 2020 Amended(7) by P8843 'Time B Safe' (G., Janet, Murphy), 30 Aug 2022 Annotations: CFJ 3765 (called 31 Jul 2019): A reasonable combination of actions for allowing arbitrary rule changes could include repealing this rule first. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ======================================================================== Players This small section provides some rules detailing how joining and leaving Agora works. If you're a new player, this is probably the most important section to read. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rule 869/55 (Power=3) How to Join and Leave Agora Any entity (including a group of entities confederated with the intent of forming a single person under this Rule) that is or ever was able to willingly communicate original ideas is a person. Rules to the contrary notwithstanding, no other entities are persons. Questions about personhood are to be resolved equitably, with regard for the good-faith of those involved and the customs of honorable play. Citizenship is a secured person switch with values Unregistered (default) and Registered, tracked by the Registrar. A registered person is a Player. To "register" someone is to flip that person's Citizenship switch from Unregistered to Registered. An Unregistered person CAN (unless explicitly forbidden or prevented by Rules of power 3 or greater) register by publishing a message that indicates reasonably clearly and reasonably unambiguously eir desire to be a player at that time (for example, by saying "I register"). Rules to the contrary notwithstanding, two or more persons CANNOT become Registered simultaneously. The basis of a person is the set of all persons that are (recursively) part of em, in addition to emself. Rules to the contrary notwithstanding, a person CANNOT become Registered if eir basis overlaps with that of any current player. A player, acting as emself, CAN deregister (cease being a player) by announcement. If e does so, e CANNOT register or be registered for 30 days. A person, by registering, agrees to abide by the Rules. The Rules CANNOT otherwise bind a person to abide by any agreement without that person's willful consent. The Rules CANNOT compel non-players to act without their express or reasonably implied consent. The rules CANNOT compel players to unduly harass non-players. A non-person CANNOT be a player, rules to the contrary notwithstanding. History: Enacted by P498 (Alexx), 30 Sep 1993 Amended by P869 'Registered Players' (Garth), around 07 Apr 1994 Amended(1) by R750, around 07 Apr 1994 Amended(2) by P1313, 12 Nov 1994 Amended(3) by P1437, 21 Feb 1995 Amended(4) by P2040, 11 Dec 1995 Amended(5) by P2599, 11 May 1996 Amended(6) by P2718, 23 Oct 1996 Amended(7) by P3475 (Murphy), 11 May 1997 Amended(8) by P3740 'Repeal Rule 1706 (Locations)' (Repeal-O-Matic), 08 May 1998 Amended(9) by P3923 'Simplify Registration' (harvel), 10 Oct 1999 Amended(10) by P4011 'New Terminology' (Wes), 01 Jun 2000 Amended(11) by P4147 'What is Public?' (Wes), 13 May 2001 Amended(12) by P4155 'Help New Players' (harvel), 18 May 2001 Amended(13) by P4430 'Lingering Grace' (Cecilius), 16 Jan 2003 Amended(14) by P4451 'Holiday Registration Fix' (Cecilius), 22 Feb 2003 Amended(15) by P4523 'Mornington Crescent' (Murphy), 28 Aug 2003 Amended(16) by P4693 'A Few Small Steps' (Maud), 18 Apr 2005 Amended(17) by P4802 'How to Join Agora' (Muad), 15 Jun 2005 Amended(18) by P4833 'Tension makes a tangle' (Maud), 06 Aug 2005 Amended(19) by P4989 'down with non-person players' (Zefram), 06 Jun 2007 Amended(20) by P5007 'generalize naturalhood' (Zefram), 18 Jun 2007 Amended(21) by P5011 'define registration' (Zefram), 24 Jun 2007 Amended(22) by P5086 'judicial reform' (Zefram), 01 Aug 2007 Amended(23) by P5111 'Return of switches' (Murphy), 02 Aug 2007 Amended(24) by P5117 'restore deregistration of non-persons' [disi.] (Zefram), 08 Aug 2007 Amended(25) by P5156 'fix registration definitions (again)' (Zefram), 29 Aug 2007 Amended(26) by P5271 'Implicit Switches v1.1' (Murphy), 07 Nov 2007 Power changed from 1 to 2 by P5728 'What, still?' (ihope), 07 Oct 2008 Amended(27) by P5728 'What, still?' (ihope), 07 Oct 2008 Amended(28) by P5973 'Highly Limited Partnerships' (woggle), 25 Nov 2008 Amended(29) by P6099 'Fix the deregistration mess' (Pavitra), 22 Feb 2009 Amended(30) by P6349 'Newbie Friendly' (Pavitra), 17 Jun 2009 Amended(31) by P6382 'Fix switches' (Murphy), 03 Jul 2009 Amended(32) by P6620 'Registration is not dependent' [green, disi.] (Murphy), 04 Feb 2010 Amended(33) by P6974 'No dishonor in deregistration' (Murphy), 30 Mar 2011 Amended(34) by P7269 'not funny anymore' (FKA441344, G.), 25 Jul 2012 Amended(35) by P7610 'Low-hanging Fruit' (G.), 22 Dec 2013 Power changed from 2 to 3 by P7610 'Low-hanging Fruit' (G.), 22 Dec 2013 Amended(36) by P7614 'Just Not Rights' (G.), 13 Jan 2014 Amended(37) by P7619 'Rules can't violate rules!' (woggle), 24 Jan 2014 Amended(38) by P7647 'formatting/misc fixes' (omd), 03 Jun 2014 Amended(39) by P7734 'Protest Noted' (G.), 02 May 2015 Amended(40) by P7810 'Cleerer Registrar Responsibilities' (nix), 11 Sep 2016 Amended(41) by P7924 'Contracts v8' (Aris, o, G., ais523, Gaelan, D.F.F., Madrid, R. Lee, Trigon, Alexis, P.S.S.), 22 Oct 2017 Amended(42) by P7931 'Registration fix finally' (G.), 06 Nov 2017 Amended(43) by P7959 'Deregistration Fix' (Telnaior), 12 Nov 2017 Amended(44) by P8051 'Zombie Overhaul v1.0' (G., Aris), 14 Jun 2018 Amended(45) by P8163 'Holey Loops, Batman!' (Kate), 22 Feb 2019 Amended(46) by P8241 'Secured switches (v2.0)' (Janet, Falsifian), 18 Sep 2019 Amended(47) by P8485 'Eternal Personhood' (Gaelan, Aris), 10 Aug 2020 Amended(48) by P8535 'We the People' (Aris, Trigon, nix, G., Gaelan), 03 Feb 2021 Amended(49) by P8853 'Unfortunately' (Janet), 11 Sep 2022 Amended(50) by P8866 'Restricted confederation' (Janet, Aris), 26 Nov 2022 Amended(51) by P8867 'Expectations, Values, Bans, and Forgiveness' (nix, Janet, R. Lee, Murphy, G.), 26 Nov 2022 Amended(52) by P8984 'Clarifying Intentions' (nix, ais523), 31 May 2023 Amended(53) by P9027 'De-Escalating the Hole' (Kate, snail), 26 Nov 2023 Amended(54) by P9049 'Registration restrictions' (Janet, Aris, ais523), 28 Jan 2024 Amended(55) by P9219 'Automatic Registration' (Kate, Murphy), 16 Mar 2025 Annotations: CFJ 1275 (called 19 Feb 2001): An entity is a Player if the Rules cannot distinguish that entity from a Player. CFJ 1263 (called 05 Feb 2001): Any message expressing a clear desire or intent to register as a Player counts as a request for registration, whether or not it is explicitly phrased in the manner stipulated by the rules. CFJ 3558 (called 06 Sep 2017): Registering by publishing that you want to be a player is a different mechanism than registering "by announcement" and so gets around rules limitations on "registering by announcement". CFJ 3625 (called 12 Feb 2018): The rules don't bind recently deregistered players to avoid re-registering, they merely declare such attempts ineffective. Also, agreeing to be bound by some of the rules doesn't count as agreeing to be bound by all of them. CFJ 3455 (called 03 Aug 2016): Ratifying an unregistered person as a player fails without that person's willful consent. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rule 478/42 (Power=3) Fora Publicity is a secured forum switch with values Public, Discussion, and Foreign (default), tracked by the Registrar. The Registrar CAN change the publicity of a forum without objection as long as: 1. e sends eir announcement of intent to that forum; and 2. if the forum is to be made public, the announcement by which the Registrar makes that forum public is sent to all existing public fora. Each player should ensure e can receive messages via each public forum. A public message is a message sent via a public forum, or sent to all players and containing a clear designation of intent to be public. A rule can also designate that a part of one public message is considered a public message in its own right. To "publish" or "announce" something is to send a public message whose body contains that thing. To do something "publicly" is to do that thing within a public message. Where the rules define an action that a person CAN perform "by announcement", that person performs that action by, in a single public message, specifying the action and setting forth intent to perform that action by sending that message, doing both clearly and unambiguously. Any action performed by sending a message is performed at the time date-stamped on that message. Actions in messages (including sub-messages) are performed in the order they appear in the message, unless otherwise specified. Allowing actions performed by sending a message to take place simultaneously must be done explicitly and is secured at power 2. History: Enacted by P478 (Jim Shea), 20 Sep 1993 Amended(1) by P1477, 08 Mar 1995 Amended(2) by P1576, 28 Apr 1995 Amended(3) by P1610, 10 Jul 1995 Amended(4) by P1700, 01 Sep 1995 Amended(5) by P2052, 19 Dec 1995 Amended(6) by P2400, 20 Jan 1996 Amended(7) by P2739 (Swann), 07 Nov 1996 Amended(8) by P2791 (Andre), 30 Jan 1997 Amended(9) by P3521 (Chuck), 23 Jun 1997 Amended(10) by P3823 'Spring Cleaning' (Ørjan), 21 Jan 1999 Amended(11) by P4147 'What is Public?' (Wes), 13 May 2001 Amended(12) by P4248 'Fix Discussion Forum' (Murphy), 19 Feb 2002 Amended(13) by P4456 'Switches' (Maud), 22 Feb 2003 Power changed from 1 to 3 by P4690 'Protect the Native Fora' (root), 18 Apr 2005 Amended(14) by P4690 'Protect the Native Fora' (root), 18 Apr 2005 Amended(15) by P4833 'Tension makes a tangle' (Maud), 06 Aug 2005 Amended(16) by P4866 'Constitutional Repeals 2.0' (G.), 27 Aug 2006 Amended(17) by P4939 'Re-divide some offices' (Murphy), 29 Apr 2007 Amended(18) by P5014 'no private messages' (Zefram), 24 Jun 2007 Amended(19) by P5111 'Return of switches' (Murphy), 02 Aug 2007 Amended(20) by P5172 'Refactor glasnost' (Murphy), 29 Aug 2007 Amended(21) by P5272 'Implicit Forum Switches' [disi.] (Murphy), 07 Nov 2007 Amended(22) by P5291 'Clarify Actions' (root), 14 Nov 2007 Amended(23) by P5535 'These things are not just for players' (Murphy), 07 Jun 2008 Amended(24) by P5613 'No more Capitol' (Quazie), 29 Jul 2008 Amended(25) by P5639 'Refactor clarity' (Murphy), 29 Jul 2008 Amended(26) by P5818 'Require Clear Announcements' (omd), 01 Nov 2008 Amended(27) by P6022 'Cleanup of Power=3 definitions' (Murphy), 22 Dec 2008 Amended(28) by P6785 'Attourney Adjustment' [purple, disi.] (Alexis), 22 Aug 2010 Amended(29) by P6963 'Protect fora' (Murphy), 20 Mar 2011 Amended(30) by P7073 'Compression Artifact' (woggle), 16 Jun 2011 Amended(31) by P7614 'Just Not Rights' (G.), 13 Jan 2014 Amended(32) by P7632 'All Activity is Good Activity' (Alexis), 01 May 2014 Amended(33) by P7810 'Cleerer Registrar Responsibilities' (nix), 11 Sep 2016 Amended(34) by R2430, 24 May 2017 Amended(35) by P8241 'Secured switches (v2.0)' (Janet, Falsifian), 18 Sep 2019 Amended(36) by P8248 'Publishing definition' (Janet, Aris), 18 Sep 2019 Amended(37) by P8275 '"By announcement" clarification' (Janet), 01 Dec 2019 Amended(38) by P8336 'Define "publicly"' (Janet), 24 Feb 2020 Amended(39) by P8576 '"By announcement" loosening' (Janet, Aris, Murphy), 23 Jun 2021 Amended(40) by P8614 'Simultaneity Security' (Janet), 18 Oct 2021 Amended(41) by P8867 'Expectations, Values, Bans, and Forgiveness' (nix, Janet, R. Lee, Murphy, G.), 26 Nov 2022 Amended(42) by P8952 'Fix Fora' (juan), 23 Apr 2023 Annotations: CFJ 1451-1452 (called 06 Mar 2003): A message that is split into multiple email messages can qualify as a single message for game purposes, if it is obvious how to combine the parts to reconstruct the single message. CFJ 813 (called 22 Oct 1995): A Player need not prove that e can receive the PF. CFJ 831 (called 10 Nov 1995): 'The Date: header of a message is not necessarily the time at which the message takes effect.' CFJ 2205 (called 02 Oct 2008): A message takes effect at exactly one of the times date-stamped on it; selecting which one is a matter of game custom. CFJ 2212 (called 07 Oct 2008): An IRC channel is a forum. CFJ 2211 (called 07 Oct 2008): It is generally possible for an IRC channel to be a public forum. CFJ 2214 (called 07 Oct 2008): Some IRC messages, such as NICK, are sent to all members of an IRC channel but are not sent via that channel. CFJ 866 (called 08 Apr 1996): A message is "received" when the message enters the recipient's normal technical domain of control, whether this be eir private machine or eir private account on a shared machine (but not the shared machine itself, if the recipient does not control it). CFJ 1112: In order to submit a Proposal, in the sense of R1865 and elsewhere, it is not sufficient that a collection of text 'with the clear indication that that text is intended to become a Proposal' (R1483) merely be sent to the Public Forum by a Proposing Entity; the collection of text must also be received in the Public Forum. CFJ 1214-1215 (called 14 May 2000): Conditional actions (of the form "If X, I do Y") are effective only where the relevant agents (such as recordkeepors) are able to conclusively determine the value of the conditional from publicly-available information. CFJ 1314 (called 15 Aug 2001): If a message sent to a public forum is rejected by the list moderator, it still qualifies as having been sent via a public forum. CFJ 1905 (called 07 Feb 2008): Regardless of CFJ 1314, a message has not been sent via a forum until most persons who have arranged to receive messages via the forum receive it. CFJ 1888 (called 31 Jan 2008): Sending a message to a Discussion Forum, or other mailing list except for a Public Forum, does not qualify as sending it to all players. CFJ 1631 (called 29 Apr 2007): Public announcements must be made in the message body; the subject line is insignificant. CFJ 1784 (called 05 Nov 2007): An undescriptive or misleading subject line does not deprive the message body of effect. CFJ 1880 (called 22 Jan 2008): A phrase that would, in the message body, cancel the effect of the rest of the message, does not have such an effect if it appears in the subject line. CFJ 1761 (called 30 Sep 2007): Publishing part of a message is a different action from publishing the whole message. CFJ 1646 (called 30 Apr 2007): The act of "publishing" or "announcing" is accomplished when the message has left the sender's technical domain of control, indicated by one of the "Received:" headers0. CFJ 1768 (called 22 Oct 2007): The right of participation in the fora is the right to participate in them for their intended purposes, and is not necessarily infringed by regulations regarding the manner and type of participation. CFJ 1738 (called 29 Aug 2007): An obligation on a player to not publish statements that e believes are true would conflict with the right of participation in the fora. CFJ 1719 (called 12 Aug 2007): A player can, if e intends, have public messages sent on eir behalf, including via a web form that allows all-comers to send messages on eir behalf without specific approval. CFJ 1336 (called 13 Dec 2001): A public statement that one wishes to perform an action that one can perform by announcement can constitute an announcement that performs that action. CFJ 1621 (called 08 Feb 2007): Where an action can be performed by announcement, announcing that one deems something to be the case that would result from that action does not constitute performing the action. CFJ 1584 (called 24 Feb 2006), CFJ 1728 (called 20 Aug 2007): ' Saying "I do X 1000 times", where X is something that can be done by announcement, is an acceptable shorthand for 1000 instances of "I do X", but this shorthand cannot be used with an infinite repeat count, because it is impossible to write out an infinite number of instances of "I do X".' CFJ 1774 (called 01 Nov 2007): Saying "I do X 10000 times", where X is something that can be done by announcement, does not necessarily achieve 10000 instances of X, if writing out 10000 instances of "I do X" would be a substantial effort such that using the shorthand is abusive. The presumption is in favour of the shorthand being successful. CFJ 1775 (called 01 Nov 2007): If an announcement of the form "I do X N times" is not be acceptable shorthand for N instances of "I do X", then the announcement is completely nullified, and does not have the effect of M instances of "I do X" for any non-zero repeat count M. CFJ 1730 (called 22 Aug 2007): An appropriate announcement will accomplish an action even if its author believed the action was impossible. CFJ 1841 (called 20 Dec 2007): A message-based action cannot be retroactive. CFJ 1971 (called 22 May 2008): An announcement with a general disclaimer as to its contents cannot fulfill a requirement to report information, but it may successfully cause game actions to be taken if the actions do not depend on the truth value of the disclaimed contents. CFJ 2133 (called 09 Aug 2008): A disclaimed statement cannot cause an action to be taken by announcement. CFJ 2112 (called 23 Jul 2008): An action is only taken by announcement if the Rules define it as such; e.g., posting an objection to a dependent action is not an action taken by announcement. CFJ 2151 (called 05 Sep 2008): Some unregulated actions, such as celebrating and revealing things, can be taken by announcement. CFJ 2086 (called 15 Jul 2008): Message-based actions are always taken in some order, never precisely simultaneously, possibly unless otherwise stated. CFJ 2179 (called 23 Sep 2008): An message-based action can be taken even if its sender cannot be identified. CFJ 2221 (called 13 Oct 2008): When an action is specified as "can do X in order to do Y", and a player does X without specifying intent to do Y, e does not do Y. CFJ 2238 (called 22 Oct 2008): The requirement of unambiguous specification applies to the parameters of an action. CFJ 2363 (called 01 Feb 2009): "X can do Y by doing Z" does not imply that X can do Z. CFJ 2441 (called 06 Apr 2009): Due to a limitation of the mailing list archives, attaching a message with a particular text does not count as publishing that text. CFJ 3106 (called 19 Oct 2011): When a person announces that "e performs" an action, the referent of "e" (i.e. eir identity) must be clear. CFJ 3002 (called 19 Apr 2011): A message of the form "This statement causes {action}" is ineffective as a way to perform {action}, and may be an attempt to act on behalf of the statement. CFJ 2899 (called 12 Nov 2010): A player's real name does not necessary identify em. CFJ 3409 (called 09 Apr 2014): An action can be performed in the subject line of a message, if it sufficiently clear (as outlined in the judgment). CFJ 3603-3604 (called 16 Nov 2017): ASCII art of text can be clear enough to suffice for communications, and in particular for taking actions by announcement. CFJ 3630 (called 02 Mar 2018): An action referencing outside content requires that the attempt to act is clear, the nature of the attempted action is clear, and the outside context cannot be altered by em and will remain available long enough for others to interpret it. CFJ 3642 (called 15 Jun 2018): Regardless of CFJ 1314, a message has not been sent via a public forum if its non-reception by some persons who arranged to receive it has affected which game actions they chose to take or not to take. CFJ 3790 (called 01 Jan 2020): The sender of a message is the last exerciser of free will that exercised free will on its path. CFJ 3884 (called 06 Sep 2020): A forum is an open medium for communication. CFJ 3855 (called 22 Jun 2020): Emails from two or more persons never constitute one Agoran message. CFJ 3948 (called 05 Mar 2022): Sending a message "to" a player via a nonpublic forum requires, at minimum, explicit signaling of the intended recipient in a forum-dependent manner. CFJ 3663 (called 24 Sep 2018): Player-introduced (non-rules) jargon may count as "clear" communication, but must pass various tests of clarity and usage to be acceptable as a general shorthand. CFJ 4001 (called 07 Nov 2022): For an announcement to be clear and unambiguous, any conditionals it contains must be determinate at the time it is made. Conditionals that depend on future state do not meet this standard. CFJ 3885 (called 04 Oct 2020): Message metadata (such as subject) is not considered to be part of a public message. CFJ 4103 (called 10 Jan 2025): If a forum is a mailing list, the content of an email message sent via that forum is the content of the email sent out to the mailing list's subscribers, even if the mailing list software presents the message differently in other contexts, such as a web interface or archival format. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rule 2139/17 (Power=2) The Registrar The Registrar is an office; its holder is responsible for keeping track of players. The Registrar's weekly report includes: 1. A list of all players, including information sufficient to identify and contact each player. 2. The date on which each player most recently became a player. 3. For each forum with non-Foreign publicity, sufficient instructions for players to receive messages there. The Registrar's monthly report includes: 1. For each former player for which the information is reasonably available, the dates on which e registered and deregistered. History: Enacted by P4939 'Re-divide some offices' (Murphy), 29 Apr 2007 Amended(1) by P5172 'Refactor glasnost' (Murphy), 29 Aug 2007 Amended(2) by P6322 'Better Reports' (Wooble), 26 May 2009 Amended(3) by P6567 'Self-Ratifying Census' [green] (Walker), 28 Nov 2009 Amended(4) by P6567 'Self-Ratifying Census' [green] (Walker), 28 Nov 2009 Power changed from 1 to 2 by P6567 'Self-Ratifying Census' [green] (Walker), 28 Nov 2009 Amended(5) by P7141 'master switcher' (G.), 19 Nov 2011 Amended(6) by P7416 'Not my job' (omd), 12 May 2013 Amended(7) by P7586 'Self-ratification, victory, office changes' (omd), 24 Aug 2013 Amended(8) by P7632 'All Activity is Good Activity' (Alexis), 01 May 2014 Amended(9) by P7810 'Cleerer Registrar Responsibilities' (nix), 11 Sep 2016 Amended(10) by R2430, 24 May 2017 Amended(11) by P7924 'Contracts v8' (Aris, o, G., ais523, Gaelan, D.F.F., Madrid, R. Lee, Trigon, Alexis, P.S.S.), 22 Oct 2017 Amended(12) by P7998 'Eastman weeks' (Murphy, ATMunn), 31 Jan 2018 Amended(13) by P8176 'Zombies take care of this now' (G.), 13 May 2019 Amended(14) by P8422 'No More Numbers!' (Publius Scribonius Scholasticus, G., Trigon, Aris, nix), 14 Jun 2020 Amended(15) by P8422 'No More Numbers!' (Publius Scribonius Scholasticus, G., Trigon, Aris, nix), 14 Jun 2020 Amended(16) by P8423 'Removing Repetition' (Publius Scribonious Scholasticus, G.), 14 Jun 2020 Amended(17) by P8976 'Ruleset convergance' (Janet), 25 May 2023 Annotations: CFJ 1703 (called 13 Jul 2007): A player cannot change eir nickname by announcement if the new nickname that e specifies is the current nickname of another player. CFJ 1361 (called 07 May 2002): Purporting to assign a new nickname, previously unused to refer to any entity, to another player is successful, but does not displace the target's existing name or nickname. CFJ 1489 (called 11 Feb 2004): Watchers are not a rule-defined element of the game. CFJ 1420 (called 17 Dec 2002): The list of watchers, customarily published with the registrar's report, is part of the game state, even though it is not mentioned in the rules and no one is obliged to track or publish it. CFJ 3467 (called 10 Nov 2016): Community standards such as text character set may limit a person's ability to freely choose eir own nickname. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rule 1789/11 (Power=3) Cantus Cygneus Whenever a Player feels that e has been treated so egregiously by the Agoran community that e can no longer abide to be a part of it, e may submit a document to the Registrar, clearly labeled a Cantus Cygneus, detailing eir grievances and expressing eir reproach for those who e feels have treated em so badly. In a timely fashion after receiving a Cantus Cygneus, the Registrar shall publish this document along with a Writ of Fugiendae Agorae Grandissima Exprobratione, commanding the Player to be deregistered. The Registrar shall note the method of deregistration for that Player in subsequent Registrar monthly Reports. The Player is deregistered as of the posting of the Writ, and the notation in the Registrar's monthly report will ensure that, henceforth, all may know said Player deregistered in a Writ of FAGE. History: Enacted by P3705 'Canteus Cygneus' (Crito), 09 Mar 1998 Amended(1) by P4099 'Spelling Fixes, Part 1 of 2' (Murphy), 15 Jan 2001 Amended(2) by P4147 'What is Public?' (Wes), 13 May 2001 Amended(3) by P4825 'Omnibus Spelling Fix' (Maud), 17 Jul 2005 Power changed from 1 to 2 by P5780 'Fix Rule 1789' (omd, ehird), 22 Oct 2008 Amended(4) by P5815 'The Registrar is an office again now.' (Pavitra, Murphy), 01 Nov 2008 Amended(5) by P5991 'Cantus Cygneus Only If You Mean It v2' (Mischief), 07 Dec 2008 Amended(6) by P6099 'Fix the deregistration mess' (Pavitra), 22 Feb 2009 Amended(7) by P6338 'FAGE across the ages' (Murphy), 29 May 2009 Amended(8) by P7470 'Finish d-ASAP'ing' [disi.] (woggle), 17 Jun 2013 Amended(9) by P7646 'Latin fix' (omd), 03 Jun 2014 Power changed from 2 to 3 by P7989 'Don't FAGE the FAGE' (Telnaior), 13 Jan 2018 Amended(10) by P8367 'Slow burn' (Murphy, Falsifian), 17 Apr 2020 Amended(11) by P8376 'Additional fire retardant' (Falsifian), 06 May 2020 Annotations: CFJ 2358 (called 26 Jan 2009): A document which is labeled as a Cantus Cygneus but does not actually detail grievances, etc. is not a Cantus Cygneus. CFJ 2953 (called 29 Dec 2010): A Cantus Cygneus CAN be submitted "to the Registrar" even if the office is vacant. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rule 2646/2 (Power=3) Activity Activity is a secured player switch tracked by the Registrar, with values Active (default) and Inactive. To flip a player's activity to active (inactive) is to activate (deactivate) em. The date on which each player's activity was last changed is part of the Registrar's weekly report. A player CAN, acting as emself, activate or deactivate emself by announcement. Any player CAN, with notice, make a player who has not made a public announcement in the past 30 days inactive. If a player has been inactive continuously for the past 60 days, then any player CAN deregister em without 3 objections. The Registrar SHOULD attempt to deregister players who meet this condition. The publication of intent for such a deregistration SHOULD be sent to the inactive player's registered email address at the same time that it is published. History: Enacted by P8532 'Turn Undead v2' (G.), 03 Feb 2021 Amended(1) by P8618 'Solo Acitivity' (nix, Janet), 18 Oct 2021 Power changed from 1 to 3 by P8814 'Effective Activity' (Janet), 30 Jul 2022 Amended(2) by P8917 'No' (Janet), 12 Mar 2023 Annotations: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rule 2678/1 (Power=3) Expectations of Participation An "Agoran forum" is a forum with publicity of discussion or public. Players of Agora have the following expectations of Agoran fora: * Agoran fora allow equal participation for all players, subject to the rules of Agora and the explicitly stated rules of the fora. * The rules of participation in public fora are as closely aligned with the rules of Agora itself as possible; a player expects to be able to fully participate in all public fora as long as eir participation is in line with Agora's rules. * Agoran fora allow all interested persons, even those that are otherwise restricted in eir participation, to read all messages. * Discussion fora moderators may restrict participation subject to eir own clearly stated rules but should only do so to players temporarily and proportional to the harm of the rule breakage. * The content of discussion fora should primarily be about Agora itself, or reasonably adjacent topics. If an existing Agoran forum is in violation of these expectations, the Agoran community, led by the Registrar, SHOULD remove it or replace it with an appropriate forum as soon as possible. History: Enacted by P8867 'Expectations, Values, Bans, and Forgiveness' (nix, Janet, R. Lee, Murphy, G.), 26 Nov 2022 Amended(1) by cleaning (Kate), 18 Sep 2023 Annotations: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rule 2679/2 (Power=3) Restrictions on Participation Banned is a secured negative boolean person switch tracked by the Registrar. A person is unwelcome if e is Banned or if at least one part of em is unwelcome. Rules to the contrary notwithstanding, an unwelcome person CANNOT register or be registered, and e is immediately deregistered if e is ever a player. Designations of unwelcomeness are secured. A Banned switch SHOULD ONLY be flipped by a proposal for the express purpose of flipping Banned switches. Flipping a Banned switch to True (banning a player) SHOULD ONLY be done when: * the person's actions have been deemed harmful to Agora, to any player of Agora, or the overall community, and * the harm has been clearly communicated to the person, and e has been given time to consider and respond, and * e has made no attempt to make amends, eir attempt was unsatisfactory, or e has continued to act in harmful ways. Actions that are harmful are subject to the discretion of the community of Agora, but may include: any form of identity-based discrimination, personal attacks, disrespect of values or beliefs of any member of the Agoran community, or provocative/bad-faith comments. Once a quarter, any unwelcome person may submit a Request for Forgiveness to the Registrar. Such a document SHOULD contain sincere self-reflection including any appropriate apologies and an indication on how e intends to avoid or prevent similar incidents in the future. The Registrar SHALL publish any Request for Forgiveness e receives in a timely fashion. If the community deems the Request sincere and appropriately reconciliatory, steps should be undertaken to flip the submitter's Banned switch to False. History: Enacted by P8867 'Expectations, Values, Bans, and Forgiveness' (nix, Janet, R. Lee, Murphy, G.), 26 Nov 2022 Amended(1) by P8903 'Effective forgiveness' (Janet), 26 Feb 2023 Amended(2) by P9132 'Fashionable Manners' (Mischief, Janet), 06 Jul 2024 Annotations: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ======================================================================== General Definitions This section describes the terminology used by all the other rules. If, when reading a rule, you don't understand what a word means, chances are that the Agoran definition of that word is described in one of these rules. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rule 2152/11 (Power=3) Mother, May I? The following terms are defined. These definitions are used when a rule includes a term in all caps, and provide guidance in determining the ordinary-language meaning of a term when a rule includes a term otherwise. Earlier definitions take precedence over later ones. If a rule specifies one or more persons in connection with a term, then the term applies only to the specified person(s). 1. CANNOT, IMPOSSIBLE, INEFFECTIVE, INVALID: Attempts to perform the described action are unsuccessful. 2. MUST NOT, MAY NOT, SHALL NOT, ILLEGAL, PROHIBITED: Performing the described action violates the rule in question. 3. NEED NOT, OPTIONAL: Failing to perform the described action does not violate the rules. 4. SHOULD NOT, DISCOURAGED, DEPRECATED: Before performing the described action, the full implications of performing it ought to be be understood and carefully weighed. 5. CAN, POSSIBLE, EFFECTIVE, VALID: Attempts to perform the described action are successful. 6. MAY, LEGAL, PERMISSIBLE: Performing the described action does not violate the rules. 7. MUST, SHALL, REQUIRED, MANDATORY: Failing to perform the described action violates the rule in question. 8. SHOULD, ENCOURAGED, RECOMMENDED: Before failing to perform the described action, the full implications of failing to perform it ought to be understood and carefully weighed. History: Enacted by P5053 'Mother, May I with Power 1?' (Murphy), 05 Jul 2007 Power changed from 1 to 2 by P5054 'Mother, May I with Power 2?' (Murphy), 05 Jul 2007 Amended(1) by P5189 'More MMI' (Levi), 03 Sep 2007 Power changed from 2 to 3 by P5247 (AFO), 14 Oct 2007 Amended(2) by P5353 'Fix MMI bullets' [disi.] (Murphy), 16 Dec 2007 Amended(3) by P5354 'MMI parallelism' (Murphy), 16 Dec 2007 Amended(4) by P5535 'These things are not just for players' (Murphy), 07 Jun 2008 Amended(5) by P6571 'This gets on my nerves' [green] (ais523), 28 Nov 2009 Amended(6) by P6983 'Fix MMI' (Murphy), 10 Apr 2011 Amended(7) by P7613 'What is PERMITTED NEED NOT be POSSIBLE' (Arufonsu), 11 Jan 2014 Amended(8) by P8254 'Anything is POSSIBLE' (Janet), 03 Nov 2019 Amended(9) by P8594 'Nicer Definitions' (R. Lee), 14 Jul 2021 Amended(10) by P8942 'Cleaning' (4st), 16 Apr 2023 Amended(11) by P8972 'Yes we are EFFECTIVE!' (Janet), 25 May 2023 Annotations: CFJ 1488 (called 11 Feb 2004): Engineering a situation in which other players are unable to follow a particular rule is not in itself a violation of that rule. CFJ 2395 (called 01 Mar 2009): Even without this being explicitly specified in the rules, it is possible for a non-player to violate a rule by missing a deadline. CFJ 1990 (called 07 Jun 2008): "Allowed" may refer to either possibility or permissibility depending on context. CFJ 2230 (called 16 Oct 2008): In a statement of the form "an action that X may take", 'may' generally means 'might', i.e. CAN. CFJ 2282 (called 19 Nov 2008): To state that an entity "MUST" have certain properties refers to possibility, not legality. CFJ 2414 (called 14 Mar 2009): A rule of the form "X SHOULD be interpreted as Y" does not allow players to bypass the interpretation by failing to perform the described action. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rule 2509/3 (Power=2) Agoran Numbers A "number" is considered to refer to a real number, unless otherwise explicitly specified. A "number of (items)", where (items) is a set of discrete entities, is considered to refer to a non-negative integer, unless otherwise explicitly specified. If a switch is defined as being associated with a specified set of numbers (a numerical switch), then the possible values for that switch are the numbers in that set. In particular, a natural or integer switch is a switch with possible values the non-negative integers or all integers, respectively. If a limit is further defined, the possible values are the numbers of the set within the specified limits. If the rules describe mathematical operations to be used in flipping an instance of a numerical switch, the operations are interpreted as having common-sense mathematical application to determine that instance's resulting value. For example, "increasing a switch instance by M" is equivalent to "flipping a switch instance from its current value N to the value N+M". If the specified mathematical operation would result in a value outside that switch's defined set, the flipping CANNOT be performed, rules to the contrary notwithstanding. History: Enacted by P7903 'Numerical Switches v2' (G.), 03 Oct 2017 Amended(1) by P8017 'RTRW Cleanups' (Alexis), 06 Mar 2018 Amended(2) by P8021 'Limit Numerical silliness' (G.), 06 Mar 2018 Retitled to 'Agoran Numbers' by P8021 'Limit Numerical silliness' (G.), 06 Mar 2018 Amended(3) by P9188 'Double Default Trouble' (kiako), 20 Oct 2024 Annotations: CFJ 2509 (called 25 Jan 2021): Zero is a natural number. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rule 2125/15 (Power=3) Regulated Actions An action is regulated if: (1) the Rules limit, allow, enable, or permit its performance; (2) the Rules describe the circumstances under which the action would succeed or fail; or (3) the action would, as part of its effect, modify information for which some player is required to be a recordkeepor. A Regulated Action CAN only be performed as described by the Rules, and only using the methods explicitly specified in the Rules for performing the given action. The Rules are not to be interpreted so as to proscribe unregulated actions. The above notwithstanding, sending a message (in general or with specific attributes) is never a regulated action; however, the rules may be interpreted so as to proscribe sending public messages (in general or with specific attributes). History: Enacted by P4866 'Constitutional Repeals 2.0' (G.), 27 Aug 2006 Amended(1) by P5235 'No enshrinement of the courts' (Goddess Eris), 03 Oct 2007 Amended(2) by P5536 'Refactor Regulation' (Murphy), 07 Jun 2008 Amended(3) by P5739 'Secure regulation' (root), 09 Oct 2008 Amended(4) by P6022 'Cleanup of Power=3 definitions' (Murphy), 22 Dec 2008 Amended(5) by P6251 'Decriminalize restricted actions' (Murphy), 09 May 2009 Amended(6) by P6269 'Good Sportspersonship' (Pavitra), 11 May 2009 Amended(7) by P6327 'Does a public message have the nature?' (Murphy), 29 May 2009 Amended(8) by P7614 'Just Not Rights' (G.), 13 Jan 2014 Amended(9) by P7865 'Regulations v4' (Aris, o, nix, ais523), 27 Jun 2017 Amended(10) by P7928 'no we can't' (G.), 22 Oct 2017 Amended(11) by P8354 'Statutory Instrumentation' (Alexis, Murphy, Aris, Gaelan), 21 Mar 2020 Amended(12) by cleaning (Falsifian), 16 Jun 2020 Amended(13) by P8539 'The Great Rollback' (Aris, G.), 11 Feb 2021 Amended(14) by P8975 'De-regulating' (Janet), 25 May 2023 Amended(15) by P8975 'De-regulating' (Janet), 25 May 2023 Annotations: CFJ 3737 (called 15 Jun 2019): Actions that the rules state a player SHALL NOT perform are considered to be regulated actions. CFJ 3793 (called 16 Jan 2020): Rule 2125 is an interpretive principle applied to the rules as a whole and not to any individual rule. For a method to be explicitly specified, it must actually specify a way that the action can be realized; it is not enough that a rule claims there is a method. Circular reasoning cannot be used to permit an action or to provide a method. CFJ 3869 (called 18 Jul 2020): Sending messages to fora is not regulated, only the potential actions contained therein. CFJ 3797 (called 22 Jan 2020): Whether coming into existence is regulated depends on the thing that is coming into existence. Coming into existence is regulated for rules-defined entities and is not regulated for entities of which the rules decline to take notice; for entities that are not defined by the rules, but of which the rules take notice, such as persons, coming into existence is not regulated but the collateral consequences (e.g. assigning switch values) are. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rule 1023/43 (Power=2) Agoran Time The following terms are defined: 1. The phrase "in a timely fashion" means "within 7 days". This time period is set when the requirement is created (i.e. X days before the limit ends). A requirement to perform an action at an exact instant (e.g. "when X, Y SHALL Z"), but not "in the same message", is instead interpreted as a requirement to perform that action in a timely fashion after that instant. 2. The phrase "in an officially timely fashion" means "before the end of the next Agoran week". This time period is set when the requirement is created (i.e. between 7 and 14 days before the period ends). 3. Agoran epochs: a. Agoran days begin at midnight UTC. b. Agoran weeks begin at midnight UTC on Monday. Eastman weeks begin at midnight UTC on the 1st, 8th, 15th, 22nd, and 29th of each Gregorian month; the fifth one of the month (if any) lasts till the end of the month. c. Agoran months begin at midnight UTC on the first day of each Gregorian month. d. Agoran quarters begin when the Agoran months of January, April, July, and October begin. e. Agoran years begin when the Agoran month of January begins. f. A pivot is either the instant at which Agora Nomic began (June 30, 1993, 00:04:30 GMT +1200) or an instant at which at least one person won the game. When used as a period of time, a "Round" (historical syn: "game") is the period of time between a pivot and the next pivot. The "Agoran" qualifier is assumed unless a different definition is indicated (e.g. Eastman weeks). These definitions do not apply to relative durations (e.g. "within days after "). 4. Two points in time are within a month of each other if: a. they occur in the same Agoran month; b. they occur in two consecutive Agoran months, and the later of the two occurs in an earlier day in the month than the earlier one; c. they occur in two consecutive Agoran months on the same day of the month, and the later of the two occurs at the same or earlier time of day. 5. Any anniversary, monthly anniversary, or quarterly anniversary that would otherwise attempt to occur on a day of the month that does not exist (after considering any leap day) instead occurs on the first day of the following month. History: Enacted by P805, between 01 Jan 1994 and 28 Feb 1994 Amended by P907 (Nicol), between 01 Apr 1994 and 31 May 1994 Amended by R750, between 01 Apr 1994 and 31 May 1994 Amended by P1023, 05 Sep 1994 Amended(1) by R750, 05 Sep 1994 Amended(2) by P1413, 01 Feb 1995 Amended(3) by P1434, 14 Feb 1995 Amended(4) by P1682, 22 Aug 1995 Amended(5) by P1727, 06 Oct 1995 Amended(6) by P2042, 11 Dec 1995 Amended(7) by P2489, 16 Feb 1996 Amended(8) by P2567, 12 Apr 1996 Mutated from MI=1 to MI=2 by P2602, 26 May 1996 Amended(9) by P2629, 04 Jul 1996 Amended(10) by P2770 (Steve), 19 Dec 1996 Amended(11) by P3823 'Spring Cleaning' (Ørjan), 21 Jan 1999 Amended(12) by P3823 'Spring Cleaning' (Ørjan), 21 Jan 1999 Amended(13) by P3897 'A Separation of Money but not of Powers' (harvel), 27 Aug 1999 Amended(14) by P3950 'Deference Deprecation' (harvel), 08 Dec 1999 Amended(15) by P4004 'Simplify \'ASAP\'' (Steve), 08 May 2000 Amended(16) by P4278 'Cold Storage' (harvel), 03 Apr 2002 Amended(17) by P4406 'Criminal Reform (v1.3)' (Murphy), 30 Oct 2002 Amended(18) by P4866 'Constitutional Repeals 2.0' (G.), 27 Aug 2006 Amended(19) by P4938 'Paragraphs' (Murphy), 29 Apr 2007 Amended(20) by P5005 'Power to the Paragraphs 1.1' (root), 18 Jun 2007 Amended(21) by P5077 'MMI in practice' (Murphy), 18 Jul 2007 Amended(22) by P5102 'determinism' (Zefram), 01 Aug 2007 Amended(23) by P5081 'renumeration II.0' [disi.] (Zefram), 01 Aug 2007 Amended(24) by P5408 'In a timely fashion' (root), 22 Jan 2008 Amended(25) by P6046 'Cruft' (omd), 13 Jan 2009 Amended(26) by P6321 'Relative definition' [disi.] (Murphy), 26 May 2009 Amended(27) by P6535 'Workaround for broken time limits' [green] (Murphy), 04 Nov 2009 Amended(28) by P6660 'Consolidate time definitions' [green, disi.] (Murphy), 10 Mar 2010 Amended(29) by P7045 'Speed' (Walker), 16 May 2011 Amended(30) by P7289 (G.), 09 Sep 2012 Amended(31) by P7420 'We don't need to be that idiosyncratic un-derp version' (omd), 27 May 2013 Amended(32) by P7606 'Cruise Control' (G.), 13 Dec 2013 Amended(33) by P7641 'Relative Months' (Alexis), 12 May 2014 Amended(34) by P7686 'Cleanup' (omd), 07 Aug 2014 Amended(35) by P7760 'Next Win System' (G.), 19 Jul 2015 Amended(36) by R2430, 24 May 2017 Amended(37) by P7865 'Regulations v4' (Aris, o, nix, ais523), 27 Jun 2017 Amended(38) by P7924 'Contracts v8' (Aris, o, G., ais523, Gaelan, D.F.F., Madrid, R. Lee, Trigon, Alexis, P.S.S.), 22 Oct 2017 Retitled by P7924 'Contracts v8' (Aris, o, G., ais523, Gaelan, D.F.F., Madrid, R. Lee, Trigon, Alexis, P.S.S.), 22 Oct 2017 Amended(39) by P7998 'Eastman weeks' (Murphy, ATMunn), 31 Jan 2018 Amended(40) by P8304 'Rewards Reform Act - v1.1 Patch' (Bernie, Kate, Janet), 29 Jan 2020 Amended(41) by P9123 'Anniversaries' (Mischief), 23 Jun 2024 Amended(42) by P9141 'Time for some clarifications' (Janet), 13 Jul 2024 Amended(43) by P9173 'Mid-2024 Omnibus Cleanup Act' (Mischief, Murphy, ais523, Janet, 4st), 15 Sep 2024 Annotations: CFJ 3624 (called 09 Feb 2018): A condition of "continuously X for one week" is a relative duration, thus unrelated to Agoran or Eastman weeks. CFJ 3873 (called 08 Aug 2020): Depending on context, it can be the anniversary of an event on the day that event first happens. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rule 1728/46 (Power=3) Tabled Actions An action is a Tabled Action if the Rules purport to authorize its performance via one of the following methods: * With N Support, where N is a positive integer. * Without N Objections, where N is a positive integer. * With N Agoran Consent, where N is a positive integer multiple of 0.1. * With T notice, where T is a time period. The parameters N and T, if omitted, default to 1 and 4 days, respectively (e.g. "without objection" means N=1). If a rule defines N as less than 1, it is instead treated as 1. A person, acting as emself, CAN by announcement table an intent (syn. "intend") to perform a tabled action, clearly, conspicuously, explicitly, and without obfuscation specifying the action, the method (including non-default parameter values), and, optionally, conditions. A person is the sponsor of such an intent if e tabled it, or if e is authorized to perform its action due to holding a rule-defined position previously held by the person who tabled it. History: Enacted by P3521 (Chuck), 23 Jun 1997 Infected and amended(1) by R1454, 02 Nov 1997 Amended(2) by R1728, 16 Nov 1997 Amended(3) by P3812 'Actions Without N Objections' (Steve), 21 Dec 1998 Amended(4) by P3836 'Broaden Actions Without Objection' (General Chaos), 02 Mar 1999 Amended(5) by P3950 'Deference Deprecation' (harvel), 08 Dec 1999 Amended(6) by P3973 'Dependent Actions' (harvel), 14 Feb 2000 Amended(7) by P3991 'Streamline Actions With Support' (Steve), 30 Mar 2000 Amended(8) by P4011 'New Terminology' (Wes), 01 Jun 2000 Power changed from 1 to 2 by P4121 'Patch Up Dependent Actions' (Ziggy), 16 Mar 2001 Amended(9) by P4121 'Patch Up Dependent Actions' (Ziggy), 16 Mar 2001 Amended(10) by P4279 'Fix Dependent Actions' (harvel), 03 Apr 2002 Amended(11) by P4461 'Fix Dependent Actions' (Maud), 17 Mar 2003 Amended(12) by P4915 '"Deem" deemed harmful, take two' (Murphy), 02 Apr 2007 Amended(13) by P4981 'no free dependent actions' (Zefram), 31 May 2007 Amended(14) by P4999 'fix dependent actions' (Zefram), 12 Jun 2007 Amended(15) by P5007 'generalize naturalhood' (Zefram), 18 Jun 2007 Amended(16) by P5113 'Really Generalize Dependent Actions' (Murphy, Maud), 02 Aug 2007 Amended(17) by P5370 'first-class dependent actions' (Zefram), 20 Dec 2007 Amended(18) by P5445 'Satisfaction v3' (G., Murphy), 21 Feb 2008 Amended(19) by P5543 'Faster support' (Murphy, Pavitra, root), 16 Jun 2008 Amended(20) by P5775 'Clean up dependent actions' (Murphy), 17 Oct 2008 Amended(21) by P5818 'Require Clear Announcements' (omd), 01 Nov 2008 Power changed from 2 to 3 by P5947 'Balance of Power' (ais523), 15 Nov 2008 Amended(22) by P5995 'Fix multi-method dependent actions' (Murphy), 07 Dec 2008 Amended(23) by P6041 'Allow contract-defined dependent actions' (Murphy, the Warrigal), 13 Jan 2009 Amended(24) by P6204 'Depending Actions' (Murphy), 27 Apr 2009 Amended(25) by P6437 'Objection cap' (Murphy), 18 Aug 2009 Amended(26) by P6448 'Hand Limit Remodel v3' (BobTHJ), 27 Aug 2009 Amended(27) by P6474 'Refactor dependent actions' (omd), 15 Sep 2009 Amended(28) by P6512 'Fix dependent actions' [disi.] (omd), 03 Oct 2009 Amended(29) by P6619 'Encourage dependent disclosure' [green, disi.] (Murphy), 04 Feb 2010 Amended(30) by P6650 'Contract Cleanup' [purple] (Alexis), 10 Mar 2010 Amended(31) by P6981 'Littler Dutch Boy' (Murphy, omd), 10 Apr 2011 Amended(32) by P7045 'Speed' (Walker), 16 May 2011 Amended(33) by P7606 'Cruise Control' (G.), 13 Dec 2013 Amended(34) by P7815 'Agencies' (Alexis, aranea), 28 Oct 2016 Amended(35) by P7840 'Not an Apple campsite' (G.), 01 Mar 2017 Amended(36) by R2430, 24 May 2017 Amended(37) by P7871 'Minor fixes (sans typos)' (R. Lee), 07 Sep 2017 Amended(38) by P8017 'RTRW Cleanups' (Alexis), 06 Mar 2018 Amended(39) by P8107 'Buried Intent Prevention Act v2' (D. Margaux, Aris, G.), 27 Oct 2018 Amended(40) by P8123 'Independence' (Gaelan), 19 Nov 2018 Retitled by P8165 'Dependent Action Cleanup Act' (D. Margaux, Gaelan), 27 Apr 2019 Amended(41) by P8165 'Dependent Action Cleanup Act' (D. Margaux, Gaelan), 27 Apr 2019 Amended(42) by P8236 'Definition de-capitalization' (Janet, Aris), 18 Sep 2019 Retitled by P8629 'Independence Day' (G., Gaelan, Telna, nix, Madrid, cuddlybanana, Janet), 18 Oct 2021 Amended(43) by P8629 'Independence Day' (G., Gaelan, Telna, nix, Madrid, cuddlybanana, Janet), 18 Oct 2021 Amended(44) by P8710 'Tabled action clarification' (Janet, snail), 17 Jul 2022 Amended(45) by P8718 'Well, we kind of mean it' (Janet, ais523), 24 Jul 2022 Amended(46) by P8861 'Finally Removing Arbitrary Limits' (nix), 06 Nov 2022 Annotations: CFJ 3747 (called 25 Jun 2019): An intent is "conspicuous" if "a reasonable player would be able to tell after glancing at a message that it contains the dependent action". CFJ 3747 (called 25 Jun 2019): An intent is "without obfuscation" if (1) "a reasonable Agoran reading the message must, at a glance, be able to understand the gist of the dependent action being announced" and (2) the details of the action to be performed are "easy to understand". ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rule 2124/32 (Power=3) Performing Tabled Actions For a given tabled intent, a player CAN, unless otherwise forbidden by the rules or the document enabling the action, act on eir own behalf, by announcement, to: * Become a supporter ("support" it), unless e tabled or previously supported it; * Become an objector ("object to" it), unless e previously objected to it; A supporter/objector to an intent, acting as emself, CAN by announcement cease to be a supporter/objector ("withdraw" support/objection) of that intent. Limiting the ability to support or object to an intent is secured at the power of the rule enabling that action to be performed. An intent is ripe if was tabled within the past 14 days, the Speaker hasn't objected to it in the past 48 hours, and its conditions, if any, are each clearly and unambiguously met. An intent is mature if it was tabled at least 4 days ago and nobody withdrew objections from it in the past 24 hours. A rule purporting to allow a person to perform a tabled action allows em to do so by announcement, if, considering only intents for that action/method combination: * With N Support: e is a sponsor or supporter of a ripe intent with at least N supporters. * Without N Objections: e is a sponsor of a mature ripe intent with less than N objectors. * With N Agoran Consent: e is a sponsor or supporter of a mature ripe intent with supporters greater than N times its objectors (e SHOULD list supporters and objectors). * With T notice: e is the sponsor of a ripe intent created at least T ago. History: Enacted by P4853 'Alternative Conclaves' (G.), 18 Mar 2006 Amended(1) by P4866 'Constitutional Repeals 2.0' (G.), 27 Aug 2006 Amended(2) by P4868 'Red Tape Repeals 2.0' (G.), 27 Aug 2006 Amended(3) by P4978 'Tighten Agoran consent' (Murphy), 31 May 2007 Retitled by P5113 'Really Generalize Dependent Actions' (Murphy, Maud), 02 Aug 2007 Amended(4) by P5113 'Really Generalize Dependent Actions' (Murphy, Maud), 02 Aug 2007 Amended(5) by P5370 'first-class dependent actions' (Zefram), 20 Dec 2007 Power changed from 1 to 2 by P5445 'Satisfaction v3' (G., Murphy), 21 Feb 2008 Retitled by P5445 'Satisfaction v3' (G., Murphy), 21 Feb 2008 Amended(6) by P5445 'Satisfaction v3' (G., Murphy), 21 Feb 2008 Amended(7) by P5504 'Liberalize objection' (Murphy), 10 May 2008 Amended(8) by P5767 'Be careful what you start' (Murphy), 17 Oct 2008 Amended(9) by P5995 'Fix multi-method dependent actions' (Murphy), 07 Dec 2008 Amended(10) by P6027 (Mischief), 08 Jan 2009 Amended(11) by P6306 'Patch objections' (Murphy), 26 May 2009 Amended(12) by P6410 [disi.] (Alexis), 30 Jul 2009 Amended(13) by P6448 'Hand Limit Remodel v3' (BobTHJ), 27 Aug 2009 Amended(14) by P6475 'Simple satisfaction fix' [disi.] (omd), 15 Sep 2009 Amended(15) by P6512 'Fix dependent actions' [disi.] (omd), 03 Oct 2009 Amended(16) by cleaning (Keba), 20 Aug 2010 Amended(17) by P7610 'Low-hanging Fruit' (G.), 22 Dec 2013 Amended(18) by P7668 'The Power of Bureaucracy' (Alexis), 03 Jun 2014 Amended(19) by P7815 'Agencies' (Alexis, aranea), 28 Oct 2016 Amended(20) by R2430, 24 May 2017 Amended(21) by P8017 'RTRW Cleanups' (Alexis), 06 Mar 2018 Amended(22) by P8017 'RTRW Cleanups' (Alexis), 06 Mar 2018 Amended(23) by P8163 'Holey Loops, Batman!' (Kate), 22 Feb 2019 Amended(24) by P8164 'Correction to Agoran Satisfaction, Version 2.4' (Falsifian, ais523, D. Margaux, G., Kate), 31 Mar 2019 Amended(25) by P8236 'Definition de-capitalization' (Janet, Aris), 18 Sep 2019 Amended(26) by P8303 'Contract Patency v3' (Aris, Gaelan, Janet, Falsifian), 29 Jan 2020 Amended(27) by P8472 'Welcoming Back Outlaws, etc.' (Aris), 08 Jul 2020 Power changed from 2 to 3 by P8509 'Dependent De-escalation' (Baron von Vanderham, Janet, Trigon), 28 Oct 2020 Amended(28) by P8569 'Fixing Festivals' (Janet, Aris, Murphy), 14 Jun 2021 Amended(29) by P8615 'Supporter/Objector clarification v2' (Janet), 18 Oct 2021 Retitled by P8629 'Independence Day' (G., Gaelan, Telna, nix, Madrid, cuddlybanana, Janet), 18 Oct 2021 Amended(30) by P8629 'Independence Day' (G., Gaelan, Telna, nix, Madrid, cuddlybanana, Janet), 18 Oct 2021 Amended(31) by P8818 'Tabled action condition ambiguity v2' (Janet), 06 Aug 2022 Amended(32) by P8929 'Tabled action security' (Janet, Murphy, snail), 26 Mar 2023 Annotations: CFJ 3567 (called 27 Sep 2017): Supports and objections can be made on a group of intents (e.g. "I object to all intents to do X."). ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rule 2518/1 (Power=3) Determinacy If a value CANNOT be reasonably determined (without circularity or paradox) from information reasonably available, or if it alternates indefinitely between values, then the value is considered to be indeterminate, otherwise it is determinate. A communication purporting to express conditional intent to perform an action is considered unclear and ambiguous unless, at a minimum, the conditional is determinate, true, and reasonably straightforward to evaluate with publicly-available information at the time of communication. The communicator SHOULD explain specific reasons for being uncertain of the outcome when e makes the communication. History: Enacted by P7924 'Contracts v8' (Aris, o, G., ais523, Gaelan, D.F.F., Madrid, R. Lee, Trigon, Alexis, P.S.S.), 22 Oct 2017 Amended(1) by P8925 'Codify Conditionality' (G., Janet, Murphy), 19 Mar 2023 Annotations: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rule 2505/1 (Power=1) Random Choices When a Rule specifies that a random choice be made, then the choice shall be made using whatever probability distribution among the possible outcomes the Rule specifies, defaulting to a uniform probability distribution. The choice can be made using any physical or computational process whose probability distribution among the possible outcomes is reasonably close to that required by the Rules, and for which the final choice is not trivially predictable by the selecting person in advance. The selecting person SHOULD make the selection method public, and SHOULD use a method for which the final probability distribution can be readily confirmed. History: Enacted by P7883 'Fear v2.1' (G.), 26 Sep 2017 Amended(1) by P8545 'Uncanny Fixes' (Aris, Murphy), 10 Mar 2021 Annotations: CFJ 3925 (called 31 Aug 2021): If a random choice is required within a given week, it can't be chosen before that week begins. CFJ 4007 (called 13 Feb 2023): The "final probability distribution" of a random selection is the result of a multistep process that is only considered "final" when the selection is used for the associated action. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rule 2681/1 (Power=1) Acting on Commitment A Fingerprint for a document (the Plaintext) is a document that could not have been reasonably created without knowledge of the Plaintext, and which is related to the Plaintext in such a way that one could not reasonably produce another document related to that Fingerprint in the same way. A person CAN make a commitment to a particular kind of document by publishing a statement that purports to be a Fingerprint for a document of that kind. If the statement is in fact such a Fingerprint, the person CAN then reveal the commitment by publishing the Plaintext corresponding to that Fingerprint and clearly indicating which Fingerprint the Plaintext relates to. A person making a commitment SHOULD specify the method used to produce the Fingerprint from the Plaintext. History: Enacted by P8928 'Acting on commitment' (juan), 26 Mar 2023 Amended(1) by P9195 'Commitment Issues' (Mischief, Kate, Janet), 16 Dec 2024 Annotations: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ======================================================================== Entities "Entity" is a confusing word to new players. This section describes what an entity is. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rule 1586/9 (Power=2) Definition and Continuity of Entities If multiple rules attempt to define an entity with the same name, then they refer to the same entity. A rule-defined entity's name CANNOT be changed to be the same as another rule-defined entity's name. A rule, contract, or regulation that refers to an entity by name refers to the entity that had that name when the rule first came to include that reference, even if the entity's name has since changed. If the entity that defines another entity is amended such that it no longer defines the second entity, then the second entity and its attributes cease to exist. If the entity that defines another entity is amended such that it defines the second entity both before and after the amendment, but with different attributes, then the second entity and its attributes continue to exist to whatever extent is possible under the new definitions. History: Enacted by P2481, 16 Feb 1996 Amended(1) by P2795 (Andre), 30 Jan 1997 Amended(2) by P3999 'New Entity Reform' (harvel), 02 May 2000 Power changed from 1 to 2 by P3999 'New Entity Reform' (harvel), 02 May 2000 Amended(3) by P5077 'MMI in practice' (Murphy), 18 Jul 2007 Amended(4) by P5723 'Namespace conflicts (rule-defined entities)' (Murphy), 07 Oct 2008 Amended(5) by P5836 'Generalize continuity' (Murphy), 12 Oct 2008 Amended(6) by cleaning (omd), 26 Jan 2009 Amended(7) by P6650 'Contract Cleanup' [purple] (Alexis), 10 Mar 2010 Amended(8) by P6981 'Littler Dutch Boy' (Murphy, omd), 10 Apr 2011 Repealed by P7614 'Just Not Rights' (G.), 13 Jan 2014 Re-enacted(9) and amended by P7924 'Contracts v8' (Aris, o, G., ais523, Gaelan, D.F.F., Madrid, R. Lee, Trigon, Alexis, P.S.S.), 22 Oct 2017 Annotations: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rule 2162/16 (Power=3) Switches A type of switch is a property that a rule or a contract defines as a switch (with such rule or contract being its backing document) and specifies the following: 1. The type(s) of entity possessing an instance of that switch. No other entity possesses an instance of that switch. 2. One or more possible values for instances of that switch, exactly one of which should be designated as the default. No values other than those listed are possible for instances of that switch, except that, if no default is otherwise specified, then rules to the contrary notwithstanding, the "null" value is a possible value for that switch, and is the default. At any given time, each instance of a switch has exactly one possible value for that type of switch. If an instance of a switch comes to have a value, it ceases to have any other value. If an instance of a switch would otherwise fail to have a possible value, it comes to have its default value. A Rule that designates a switch as "secured" (at a given power level) designates changes to the properties of that type of switch as secured (at that power level) and designates changes to the value of each instance of the switch as secured (at that power level). "To flip an instance of a switch" is to make it come to have a given value. "To become X" (where X is a possible value of exactly one of the subject's switches) is to flip that switch to X. If a type of switch is not explicitly designated as possibly-indeterminate by its backing document, and if an action or set of actions would cause the value of an instance of that type of switch to become indeterminate, that instance instead takes on its last determinate and possible value, if any, otherwise it takes on its default value. A singleton switch is a switch for which Agora Nomic is the only entity possessing an instance of that switch. A boolean switch is a switch with values True and False. A positive boolean switch has a default of True; a negative boolean switch has a default of False. Attempting to flip an instance of a switch to a value it already has does not flip the switch. However, if a person is REQUIRED to flip a switch instance to a value it already has, then either attempting to do so using the required mechanism, or announcing that the switch already has the required value, fulfills the requirement without flipping the switch. History: Enacted by P5111 'Return of switches' (Murphy), 02 Aug 2007 Amended(1) by P5271 'Implicit Switches v1.1' (Murphy), 07 Nov 2007 Amended(2) by P7247 'no more almost-switches' (omd), 10 Jun 2012 Amended(3) by P7289 (G.), 09 Sep 2012 Amended(4) by P7425 'Yaks' (Walker, G., Murphy, omd), 27 May 2013 Amended(5) by P7649 'I always thought these already ratified' (omd), 03 Jun 2014 Amended(6) by P7735 'Noise reduction' (aranea), 02 May 2015 Amended(7) by P7828 'Boolean Switches V2' (G.), 07 Nov 2016 Amended(8) by R2430, 24 May 2017 Amended(9) by P7902 'Switch no-ops' (G.), 03 Oct 2017 Amended(10) by P7903 'Numerical Switches v2' (G.), 03 Oct 2017 Amended(11) by P8075 'Less Critical Patching' (Aris, G.), 26 Jul 2018 Power changed from 2 to 3 by P8075 'Less Critical Patching' (Aris, G.), 26 Jul 2018 Amended(12) by P8241 'Secured switches (v2.0)' (Janet, Falsifian), 18 Sep 2019 Amended(13) by P8255 'Possibly-Inderterminate Switches' (Janet), 03 Nov 2019 Amended(14) by P8583 'Clarify switches' (Murphy), 23 Jun 2021 Amended(15) by P9171 'Rationalizing Recordkeepors v1.2' (Kate, Murphy, Janet, 4st), 15 Sep 2024 Amended(16) by P9205 'Switch It Up' (Mischief, Janet), 26 Jan 2025 Annotations: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rule 1688/11 (Power=3) Power The Power of an entity is a non-negative rational number. An instrument is an entity with positive Power. The Power of an entity cannot be set or modified except as stipulated by the Rules. All entities have Power zero except where specifically allowed by the rules. A Rule that makes a change, action, or value secured (hereafter the securing Rule) thereby makes it IMPOSSIBLE to perform that change or action, or to set or modify that value, except as allowed by an instrument with Power greater than or equal to the change's Power Threshold. This Threshold defaults to the securing Rule's Power, but CAN be lowered as allowed by that Rule (including by the Rule itself). History: Enacted by P3445 (General Chaos), 26 Mar 1997 Amended(1) by P3994 'Simplify Power' (harvel), 20 Apr 2000 Amended(2) by P4811 'The Cobalt Repeals' (Maud, G.), 20 Jun 2005 Amended(3) by P4940 'instrument mechanics' (Zefram), 29 Apr 2007 Amended(4) by P5276 'Generalize security' (Murphy, Pavitra, Zefram), 07 Nov 2007 Assigned to the Committee on Rules by P6053 'Committees' (Murphy, woggle, ais523), 23 Jan 2009 Amended(5) by P6513 'Power Cleanup' [disi.] (Alexis), 03 Oct 2009 Amended(6) by P6815 'Initial security' [green] (Murphy, ais523), 04 Sep 2010 Amended(7) by P7759 'minor Powers v0.2' (G.), 19 Jul 2015 Amended(8) by P7781 'Secure, secures, securing, secured' (the Warrigal), 14 Aug 2015 Amended(9) by P8017 'RTRW Cleanups' (Alexis), 06 Mar 2018 Amended(10) by P8354 'Statutory Instrumentation' (Alexis, Murphy, Aris, Gaelan), 21 Mar 2020 Amended(11) by P8539 'The Great Rollback' (Aris, G.), 11 Feb 2021 Annotations: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rule 2140/5 (Power=3) Power Controls Mutability Rules to the contrary notwithstanding, no entity with power below the power of this rule can 1. cause an entity to have power greater than its own. 2. adjust the power of an instrument with power greater than its own. 3. set or modify any other substantive aspect of an instrument with power greater than its own (that is, one that affects the instrument's operation). History: Enacted by P4940 'instrument mechanics' (Zefram), 29 Apr 2007 Assigned to the Committee on Rules by P6053 'Committees' (Murphy, woggle, ais523), 23 Jan 2009 Amended(1) by P6992 'Fix rule numbers' (Murphy, omd), 10 Apr 2011 Amended(2) by R2430, 24 May 2017 Amended(3) by P8184 'power-limit precedence' (G.), 09 Jul 2019 Amended(4) by P8354 'Statutory Instrumentation' (Alexis, Murphy, Aris, Gaelan), 21 Mar 2020 Amended(5) by P8539 'The Great Rollback' (Aris, G.), 11 Feb 2021 Annotations: CFJ 2981 (called 21 Mar 2011): An attribute of an instrument is not "modified" when an initial value is set for it. CFJ 2945 (called 22 Dec 2010): An attribute of an entity is "changed" when it is removed/unset. CFJ 2855 (called 08 Sep 2010): Absent security or similar explicit prohibitions, a low-power proposal generally CAN change game quantities defined in higher-power rules without interfering with the "substantive aspects" of the higher-powered rules. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ======================================================================== Proposals Proposals are a staple of Nomic games. If you're a new player, this is another important section, since the way proposals work in this Nomic is a little bit complicated. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rule 2350/19 (Power=3) Proposals A proposal is a type of entity consisting of a body of text and other attributes. A player CAN create (syn. submit) a proposal by announcement, specifying its text and optionally specifying any of the following attributes: * An associated title. * A list of coauthors (which must be persons other than the author). * An adoption index. Creating a proposal adds it to the Proposal Pool. Once a proposal is created, its text, author, and AI cannot be changed. The author (syn. proposer) of a proposal is the person who created it. The author of a proposal in the Proposal Pool CAN remove (syn. retract, withdraw) it from the Pool by announcement. The destruction of a proposal and the causing of a proposal to cease being a proposal are secured. The removal of a proposal from the Proposal Pool, other than by distribution, is secured. History: Enacted by P7083 'Re-jigged Re-jiggery' (Walker), 04 Jul 2011 Amended(1) by P7086 'Jig-jiggery jig-jiggery' (G., omd), 23 Jul 2011 Amended(2) by P7216 'Fix some definitions' (omd), 04 May 2012 Amended(3) by P7225 'Fix my crappy wording' (omd), 10 Jun 2012 Amended(4) by P7241 'Super Promotor Powers' (omd), 10 Jun 2012 Amended(5) by P7245 'Proposal reassociation' (omd), 10 Jun 2012 Amended(6) by P7250 'And two' (omd), 10 Jun 2012 Amended(7) by P7653 'Chamber Cleanup' (Alexis), 03 Jun 2014 Amended(8) by P7728 'Even More Restricted Distribution' (Tiger), 24 Nov 2014 Amended(9) by P7736 'Draining the pool' (aranea), 02 May 2015 Amended(10) by P8104 'Pending is Pointless' (G., Aris), 27 Oct 2018 Amended(11) by cleaning (Trigon), 04 Nov 2018 Amended(12) by P8291 'Interesting Chambers v3.1' (Bernie, Trigon, Aris, Gaelan, G., Janet, Kate), 29 Jan 2020 Amended(13) by P8408 'Sets v1.4' (nix, Trigon, Falsifian, Publius Scribonius Scholasticus, Janet, Aris, G., ais523), 12 Jun 2020 Amended(14) by P8415 'Proposal Recycling Initiative' (Aris), 14 Jun 2020 Amended(15) by cleaning (Janet), 29 Jun 2020 Amended(16) by P8540 'Strengthening Extra Votes v2.1' (nix, Aris, Janet), 11 Feb 2021 Amended(17) by P8815 'Proposal terminology fix' (ais523), 06 Aug 2022 Amended(18) by P8815 'Proposal terminology fix' (ais523), 06 Aug 2022 Amended(19) by P9003 'Process Protection' (Janet, G.), 23 Jul 2023 Annotations: CFJ 1647 (called 30 Apr 2007): Preceding a proposal-like text with the heading "Proposal:" and a title can be sufficient to clearly indicate that it is intended to become a proposal, but is not if it can be interpreted as quoting an existing proposal. CFJ 1717 (called 08 Aug 2007): Preceding a proposal-like text with the question "What is the title of this proposal?" can be sufficient to clearly indicate that it is intended to become a proposal. CFJ 3744-3745 (called 23 Jun 2019): When creating a proposal by announcement, specifying an impossible value for an optional attribute makes the creation fail. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rule 2625/2 (Power=1.0) Proposal Recycling If a referendum on a proposal was resolved as FAILED QUORUM in the past seven days, the Promotor CAN once recycle the proposal by announcement, adding it to the Proposal Pool and causing it to become pended. History: Enacted by P8415 'Proposal Recycling Initiative' (Aris), 14 Jun 2020 Amended(1) by P8418 'Referenda' (Aris), 14 Jun 2020 Amended(2) by P9133 'Last from the Past' (snail), 06 Jul 2024 Annotations: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rule 2606/4 (Power=2.0) Proposal Classes Proposals created since the enactment of this rule have a secured untracked Class switch with possible values ordinary (the default) and democratic. When a proposal with an adoption index greater than or equal to 3.0 is created, its class becomes democratic. Any player CAN, with 2 Agoran consent, flip an ordinary proposal's class to democratic, provided that it is in the Proposal Pool or that there is a referendum on it whose voting period has not yet ended. History: Enacted by P8291 'Interesting Chambers v3.1' (Bernie, Trigon, Aris, Gaelan, G., Janet, Kate), 29 Jan 2020 Amended(1) by P8319 'Sergeant-at-Arms' (Aris), 13 Feb 2020 Amended(2) by P8356 'Less Democracy Means More Fun' (Aris), 21 Mar 2020 Amended(3) by P8418 'Referenda' (Aris), 14 Jun 2020 Amended(4) by P9173 'Mid-2024 Omnibus Cleanup Act' (Mischief, Murphy, ais523, Janet, 4st), 15 Sep 2024 Annotations: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rule 1607/59 (Power=3) Distribution The Promotor is an office; its holder is responsible for receiving and distributing proposals. A referendum is the Agoran decision to determine whether to adopt a proposal (its associated proposal). For this decision, the vote collector is the Assessor, the adoption index is initially the adoption index of the proposal, and the text, author, coauthors, and class of the proposal are essential parameters. Initiating a referendum is known as distribution, and removes the proposal from the Proposal Pool. The Promotor CAN distribute a proposal which is in the Proposal Pool at any time. In a given Agoran week, the Promotor SHALL distribute each proposal that was in the Proposal Pool at the beginning of that week, except for those excepted from automatic distribution by other rules, or those that are otherwise removed from the Pool. If there are ten or more undistributed proposals in the proposal pool, the Promotor MAY refrain from distributing the most recently added 5 proposals if e distributes each other proposal in that Agoran week. Distributed proposals have ID numbers, to be assigned by the Promotor. If there is a Proposal in the Pool that it would otherwise be IMPOSSIBLE for any player to distribute, then any player CAN distribute that Proposal without 3 objections. The Promotor's report includes a list of all proposals in the Proposal Pool, along with their text and attributes. This portion of a public document purporting to be a Promotor's report is self-ratifying. The destruction of a referendum is secured. Causing a referendum to cease being a referendum is secured. History: Enacted by P2522, 10 Mar 1996 Amended(1) by P2662, 12 Sep 1996 Amended(2) by P2696, 10 Oct 1996 Amended(3) by P3827 'Fix monthly salaries' (Kolja A.), 04 Feb 1999 Amended(4) by P3871 'The Treasuror (Fixed)' (Peekee), 02 Jun 1999 Amended(5) by P3902 'Office Normalization' (Murphy), 06 Sep 1999 Amended(6) by P4002 'Officer Reform' (harvel), 08 May 2000 Amended(7) by P4050 'Papyri' (t), 15 Aug 2000 Amended(8) by P4085 'Playing Roles' (Blob), 16 Nov 2000 Amended(9) by P4250 'Omnibus Office Reform' (harvel), 19 Feb 2002 Amended(10) by P4486 'Of what worth honor?' (Michael), 24 Apr 2003 Amended(11) by P4868 'Red Tape Repeals 2.0' (G.), 27 Aug 2006 Amended(12) by P5077 'MMI in practice' (Murphy), 18 Jul 2007 Amended(13) by P5110 'Regulate ID numbers' (Murphy), 02 Aug 2007 Amended(14) by P5112 'The org chart is not flat' (Murphy), 02 Aug 2007 Amended(15) by P5418 'Refactor Chamber' (root), 02 Feb 2008 Amended(16) by P5457 'Proposal reporting requirements' (Murphy), 09 Mar 2008 Amended(17) by P5485 (root), 09 Apr 2008 Power changed from 1 to 2 by P5947 'Balance of Power' (ais523), 15 Nov 2008 Amended(18) by P6001 'Pool Protection' (G.), 07 Dec 2008 Assigned to the Committee on Rules by P6053 'Committees' (Murphy, woggle, ais523), 23 Jan 2009 Amended(19) by P6313 'Tap the Brakes' (G.), 26 May 2009 Amended(20) by P6341 's/support/object' (G.), 11 Jun 2009 Amended(21) by P6394 'Coda' (G.), 10 Jul 2009 Amended(22) by P6395 'Emergency Powers' (Alexis), 17 Jul 2009 Amended(23) by P6406 'Proposal Tweaking Part 2.1' (Walker), 07 Aug 2009 Amended(24) by P6500 'Redundant Redundancy Cleanup' [disi.] (Alexis), 26 Sep 2009 Amended(25) by P6531 'Chamber' (Walker), 23 Oct 2009 Amended(26) by P6541 'Flowers for Wooble' [green] (Murphy), 04 Nov 2009 Amended(27) by P6550 'Relevant Pool Report' [green, disi.] (Tiger), 13 Nov 2009 Amended(28) by P6793 'shorter speedup counterproposal' [red] (wooble), 27 Aug 2010 Amended(29) by P6961 '52-pickup v2' (G.), 03 Mar 2011 Amended(30) by P7033 'I don't get the point of keeping the switch' (omd), 16 May 2011 Amended(31) by P7069 'Priority' (Walker), 16 Jun 2011 Amended(32) by P7083 'Re-jigged Re-jiggery' (Walker), 04 Jul 2011 Power changed from 2 to 3 by P7083 'Re-jigged Re-jiggery' (Walker), 04 Jul 2011 Amended(33) by P7226 'This should be self-ratifying' (omd), 10 Jun 2012 Amended(34) by P7239 'this has been broken for a long time' (omd), 10 Jun 2012 Amended(35) by P7461 'Distribution Changes' (Walker), 17 Jun 2013 Amended(36) by P7569 'Disinterest' (omd, Alexis), 24 Aug 2013 Amended(37) by P7586 'Self-ratification, victory, office changes' (omd), 24 Aug 2013 Amended(38) by P7610 'Low-hanging Fruit' (G.), 22 Dec 2013 Amended(39) by P7618 'No point slowing down proposals in lieu of proposal fees' (omd), 24 Jan 2014 Amended(40) by P7629 'Do Things' (Alexis), 07 Apr 2014 Amended(41) by P7728 'Even More Restricted Distribution' (Tiger), 24 Nov 2014 Amended(42) by P7832 'Quintessential Parameters' (Alexis), 05 Dec 2016 Amended(43) by P7885 'Restraining Bolt' (o, R. Lee, Ørjan), 26 Sep 2017 Amended(44) by P8104 'Pending is Pointless' (G., Aris), 27 Oct 2018 Amended(45) by P8245 'Pool drain timing' (G.), 05 Sep 2019 Amended(46) by P8269 'Clean up distribution mechanisms' (omd), 11 Nov 2019 Amended(47) by P8291 'Interesting Chambers v3.1' (Bernie, Trigon, Aris, Gaelan, G., Janet, Kate), 29 Jan 2020 Amended(48) by P8408 'Sets v1.4' (nix, Trigon, Falsifian, Publius Scribonius Scholasticus, Janet, Aris, G., ais523), 12 Jun 2020 Amended(49) by P8418 'Referenda' (Aris), 14 Jun 2020 Amended(50) by P8428 'Pending Pends' (Aris), 14 Jun 2020 Amended(51) by P8540 'Strengthening Extra Votes v2.1' (nix, Aris, Janet), 11 Feb 2021 Amended(52) by P8621 'Proposal spreading' (R. Lee), 18 Oct 2021 Amended(53) by P8633 'Disbanded distribution' (Falsifian), 29 Nov 2021 Amended(54) by P8660 'The End of Sets' (nix, G., Janet, snail), 03 Apr 2022 Amended(55) by R2658, 09 Jun 2022 Amended(56) by P9003 'Process Protection' (Janet, G.), 23 Jul 2023 Amended(57) by cleaning (Kate), 18 Sep 2023 Amended(58) by P9036 'AI security revisited' (Janet, ais523), 10 Dec 2023 Amended(59) by P9047 'Shameless copy of Adoption AI Security with the right AI' (4st, Janet, ais523), 31 Dec 2023 Annotations: CFJ 1546 (called 14 Apr 2005), CFJ 1669 (called 16 May 2007): If a proposal is purportedly distributed with a text that differs from the submitted text, this constitutes a legal distribution of the submitted proposal if and only if the difference does not affect the meaning of the proposal. CFJ 1655 (called 09 May 2007): Distributing a purported proposal whose text consists of the texts of two submitted proposals and separating matter from the message that submitted them both, if both submitted proposals have non-null effects, does not constitute a legal distribution of either of the submitted proposals. CFJ 2733 (called 14 Nov 2009): This rule defines a separate method of distribution from the one defined in Rule 107. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rule 2137/2 (Power=1) The Assessor The Assessor is an office; its holder is responsible for collecting votes and keeping track of related properties. History: Enacted by P4939 'Re-divide some offices' (Murphy), 29 Apr 2007 Amended(1) by P5078 'refactor voting limits' (Zefram), 18 Jul 2007 Amended(2) by P5453 'Proposals are a unique exception' (Murphy), 01 Mar 2008 Assigned to the Committee on Rules by P6053 'Committees' (Murphy, woggle, ais523), 23 Jan 2009 Annotations: CFJ 1758-1759 (called 30 Sep 2007): If Assessorship changes hands, vote collection duties move with it. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rule 106/46 (Power=3) Adopting Proposals When a referendum on a proposal is resolved, if the outcome is ADOPTED, then the proposal in question is adopted, its power is set to the minimum of four, the adoption index of the proposal, and the adoption index of the referendum, and it takes effect. Proposals CANNOT otherwise be adopted or take effect, rules to the contrary notwithstanding. When a proposal takes effect, the proposal applies the changes that it specifies in its text, except as prohibited by other rules. Unless otherwise specified by the text, the effects are applied in the order they appear in the text. Clearly marked comments are ignored. If the proposal cannot make some changes it specifies, that does not preclude the other changes from taking place. Except insofar as the actions performed by a proposal happen one after another, rather than simultaneously, a proposal's effect is instantaneous. A proposal can neither delay nor extend its own effect. Once a proposal finishes taking effect, its power is set to 0. No entity with power below the power of this rule can prevent a proposal from taking effect; this does not apply to generally preventing changes to specified areas of the gamestate, nor to a proposal preventing itself from taking effect (its no-effect clause is generally interpreted as applying only to the rest of the proposal). History: Initial immutable rule 106, Agora's birth Mutated from MI=unanimity to MI=3 by P1073, 04 Oct 1994 Amended(1) by P1278, 24 Oct 1994 Renumbered by R1295, 01 Nov 1994 Infected by R1454, 07 May 1995 Amended(2), 03 May 1998 Amended(3) by P4811 'The Cobalt Repeals' (Maud, G.), 20 Jun 2005 Amended(4) by P4868 'Red Tape Repeals 2.0' (G.), 27 Aug 2006 Amended(5) by P4868 'Red Tape Repeals 2.0' (G.), 27 Aug 2006 Amended(6) by P4918 'An End To Silly Proposal Adoption Indices, v2' (OscaryMeyr), 02 Apr 2007 Amended(7) by P4939 'Re-divide some offices' (Murphy), 29 Apr 2007 Amended(8) by P5010 (Levi), 24 Jun 2007 Amended(9) by P5078 'refactor voting limits' (Zefram), 18 Jul 2007 Amended(10) by P5083 'simplify AI setting' (Zefram), 01 Aug 2007 Amended(11) by P5334 'Refactor co-authors' (Murphy), 05 Dec 2007 Amended(12) by P5356 'Secured proposal effects' (root), 16 Dec 2007 Amended(13) by P5418 'Refactor Chamber' (root), 02 Feb 2008 Amended(14) by P5453 'Proposals are a unique exception' (Murphy), 01 Mar 2008 Amended(15) by P5572 'Stop that!' (Murphy), 04 Jul 2008 Amended(16) by P6001 'Pool Protection' (G.), 07 Dec 2008 Amended(17) by P6022 'Cleanup of Power=3 definitions' (Murphy), 22 Dec 2008 Assigned to the Committee on Rules by P6053 'Committees' (Murphy, woggle, ais523), 23 Jan 2009 Amended(18) by cleaning (omd), 12 Feb 2009 Amended(19) by P6089 'Proposal Creation' (G.), 22 Feb 2009 Amended(20) by P6090 'Proposal protection' (Murphy, ais523), 22 Feb 2009 Amended(21) by P6113 'Intended Proposals Only' (G.), 01 Mar 2009 Amended(22) by P6222 'Proposal Withdrawals' (Alexis), 27 Apr 2009 Amended(23) by P6398 'Proposal Tweaking Part 1' [disi.] (Walker), 17 Jul 2009 Amended(24) by P6414 'Fix Veto' (Walker), 08 Aug 2009 Amended(25) by P6469 'Proposal Cleanup' [disi.] (Alexis), 15 Sep 2009 Amended(26) by P6571 'This gets on my nerves' [green] (ais523), 28 Nov 2009 Amended(27) by P6625 'Proposals must obey security' [green] (Murphy), 20 Feb 2010 Amended(28) by P6656 'Proposal Power Pilfering Program' [purple] (Alexis), 01 Mar 2010 Amended(29) by P6721 'Titularity' [purple, disi.] (Alexis), 21 May 2010 Amended(30) by P6734 'Effect Cleanup' [purple] (omd), 13 Jun 2010 Amended(31) by P6823 'Mother says not to run on the concrete' [green] (Murphy, omd), 10 Sep 2010 Amended(32) by P6968 'Clarify Rule 106' (Murphy, Alexis, Wooble), 20 Mar 2011 Amended(33) by P7013 'Ordinary Decisions' (omd), 23 Apr 2011 Amended(34) by P7081 'Effects are effective' (Murphy), 04 Jul 2011 Amended(35) by P7083 'Re-jigged Re-jiggery' (Walker), 04 Jul 2011 Amended(36) by P7086 'Jig-jiggery jig-jiggery' (G., omd), 23 Jul 2011 Amended(37) by P7246 'Adoption reassociation' (omd), 10 Jun 2012 Amended(38) by P7778 'Instant Runoff Improved' (Alexis), 14 Aug 2015 Amended(39) by P7940 'High Power Cleanup' (Alexis, G., P.S.S.), 06 Nov 2017 Amended(40) by P8073 'Comments' (Aris), 26 Jul 2018 Amended(41) by P8354 'Statutory Instrumentation' (Alexis, Murphy, Aris, Gaelan), 21 Mar 2020 Amended(42) by P8355 'Temporary Suspension of Rules' (Alexis, Murphy), 21 Mar 2020 Amended(43) by P8418 'Referenda' (Aris), 14 Jun 2020 Amended(44) by P8539 'The Great Rollback' (Aris, G.), 11 Feb 2021 Amended(45) by P8719 'Proposal order clarification' (Janet), 24 Jul 2022 Amended(46) by P9047 'Shameless copy of Adoption AI Security with the right AI' (4st, Janet, ais523), 31 Dec 2023 Annotations: CFJ 1639 (called 29 Apr 2007): Where a proposal attempts two separate amendments of the text of the same rule, if one of the attempted amendments is not possible and the other is then the possible amendment does in fact occur, unless the proposal explicitly requires a different resolution. CFJ 1841 (called 20 Dec 2007): It is possible for a proposal to have retroactive effect. CFJ 2162 (called 14 Sep 2008): The retroactive effect of a proposal cannot actually alter the past. CFJ 2163 (called 14 Sep 2008): There is no possible proposal text that would cause a proposal to take effect without being adopted. CFJ 2259 (called 06 Nov 2008): The possibility of the instantaneous effects of a proposal are governed by the rules. CFJ 3784 (called 22 Dec 2019): A proposal using the first person refers to the proposal itself. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ======================================================================== Rules & Regulations Ah, yes. What would any game be without rules? And these rules describe how rules work. This section also describes the governance of the Rulekeepor. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rule 2141/16 (Power=3.2) Role and Attributes of Rules A rule is a type of instrument that is always taking effect and has the capacity to govern the game generally. A rule's content takes the form of a text, and is unlimited in scope. The ruleset is the set of all currently-existing rules. Every current rule has power between 0.1 and 4.0 inclusive. Every rule shall have an ID number, distinct among current and former rules, to be assigned once by the Rulekeepor by public designation. Every rule shall have a title to aid in identification. If a rule ever does not have a title, then the Rulekeepor CAN and SHALL assign a title to it by announcement in a timely fashion. For the purposes of rules governing modification of instruments, the text, power, ID number, and title of a rule are all substantive aspects of the rule. However, rules to the contrary notwithstanding, the Rulekeepor CAN set rule aspects as described elsewhere in this rule. History: Enacted by P4940 'instrument mechanics' (Zefram), 29 Apr 2007 Amended(1) by P5110 'Regulate ID numbers' (Murphy), 02 Aug 2007 Amended(2) by P5994 'Loose ID numbers' (Murphy), 07 Dec 2008 Amended(3) by P6053 'Committees' (Murphy, woggle, ais523), 23 Jan 2009 Amended(4) by P6124 'Nobody's using them, so might as well de-cruft' (ehird), 15 Mar 2009 Amended(5) by P6670 'Clarification of Rule Effect' [Purple] (Alexis), 14 Mar 2010 Amended(6) by P6992 'Fix rule numbers' (Murphy, omd), 10 Apr 2011 Amended(7) by P7420 'We don't need to be that idiosyncratic un-derp version' (omd), 27 Mar 2013 Amended(8) by P7614 'Just Not Rights' (G.), 13 Jan 2014 Amended(9) by P7759 'minor Powers v0.2' (G.), 19 Jul 2015 Amended(10) by P8017 'RTRW Cleanups' (Alexis), 06 Mar 2018 Amended(11) by P8251 'Ruleset definition' (G.), 13 Oct 2019 Amended(12) by cleaning (Murphy), 03 Nov 2019 Power changed from 3 to 3.1 by P8347 'R2141 power increase v2' (Janet), 10 Mar 2020 Amended(13) by P8354 'Statutory Instrumentation' (Alexis, Murphy, Aris, Gaelan), 21 Mar 2020 Amended(14) by P8416 'Identity theft protection act v1.1' (Falsifian, G., Publius Scribonius Scholasticus), 14 Jun 2020 Power changed from 3.1 to 3.2 by P8534 'Power Up' (Aris), 03 Feb 2021 Amended(15) by P8539 'The Great Rollback' (Aris, G.), 11 Feb 2021 Amended(16) by P8541 'You CAN, CAN't You?' (Aris), 02 Mar 2021 Annotations: CFJ 1498 (called 12 Apr 2004): A rule's title is not strictly a name for the rule, and so rule titles are not subject to the uniqueness requirement on names of rule-defined entities. CFJ 2013 (called 17 Jun 2009): Rule 2141 does not imply that the power of rules is physically unlimited: they can only affect the world outside the game by prescribing or proscribing player behavior. CFJ 2213 (called 07 Oct 2008): The powers granted to rules by the first paragraph of Rule 2141 are general, and only apply as otherwise stated by the Rules. CFJ 2367 (called 05 Feb 2009): A rule need not "govern" anything in the game to be a rule, e.g. a rule consisting entirely of nonfunctional ASCII art is still a rule. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rule 217/12 (Power=3) Interpreting the Rules When interpreting and applying the rules, the text of the rules takes precedence. Where the text is silent, inconsistent, or unclear, it is to be augmented by game custom, common sense, past judgements, and consideration of the best interests of the game. Definitions and prescriptions in the rules are only to be applied using direct, forward reasoning; in particular, an absurdity that can be concluded from the assumption that a statement about rule-defined concepts is false does not constitute proof that it is true. Definitions in lower-powered Rules do not overrule common-sense interpretations or common definitions of terms in higher-powered rules, but may constructively make reasonable clarifications to those definitions. For this purpose, a clarification is reasonable if and only if it adds detail without changing the underlying general meaning of the term and without causing the higher powered rule to be read in a way inconsistent with its text. Rules to the contrary notwithstanding, any rule change that would (1) prevent a person from initiating a formal process to resolve matters of controversy, in the reasonable expectation that the controversy will thereby be resolved; or (2) prevent a person from causing formal reconsideration of any judicial determination that e should be punished, is wholly void and without effect. History: Initial mutable rule 217, Agora's birth Amended(1) by P1635, 25 Jul 1995 Infected and amended(2) by R1454, 07 Aug 1995 Amended(3) by P2507, 03 Mar 1996 Amended(4) by P4825 'Omnibus Spelling Fix' (Maud), 17 Jul 2005 Power changed from 1 to 3 by P4867 'Judicial Reform 2.0' (G.), 27 Aug 2006 Amended(5) by P4867 'Judicial Reform 2.0' (G.), 27 Aug 2006 Retitled by P5105 'generalise rule interpretation rule' (Zefram), 01 Aug 2007 Amended(6) by P5105 'generalise rule interpretation rule' (Zefram), 01 Aug 2007 Amended(7) by P7351 'Definition merge' (G., ais523, the Warrigal), 27 Mar 2013 Amended(8) by P7520 'Grammar fixes' (omd), 19 Jul 2013 Amended(9) by P7584 'The Logic That Was Retroactively Clarified' (omd), 24 Aug 2013 Amended(10) by P7614 'Just Not Rights' (G.), 13 Jan 2014 Amended(11) by P7662 'two more' (omd), 03 Jun 2014 Amended(12) by P8002 'Power Creep Reduction Act' (Aris), 31 Jan 2018 Annotations: CFJ 1439 (called 20 Feb 2003): A difference in language qualifies as a difference in dialect; it is possible to take game actions by messages in languages other than English. CFJ 1460 (called 04 Apr 2003): If a message is in a language other than English, and its intended audience does not understand the language, this constitutes gross unclarity that makes the message ineffective. CFJ 712: Referring to a Player by a method other than eir name or nickname is acceptable, as long as it is unambiguous. CFJ 1861 (called 08 Jan 2008): A player's legal name (legal in eir country of residence) is not necessarily an acceptable way to refer to em. CFJ 1782 (called 04 Nov 2007): Referring to a player by the name of an office that e holds suffices to identify em uniquely as a person, if there is no doubt regarding who holds that office. CFJ 1460 (called 04 Apr 2003): Extremely complex synonyms, requiring extensive effort to interpret correctly, can constitute a sufficient degree of unclarity as to render the message ineffective. CFJ 1840 (called 20 Dec 2007): A proper noun that has not been explicitly defined does not adequately refer to any entity, and is not implicitly defined by the context in which it is used. CFJ 1580 (called 12 Jan 2006): Base64 encoding of (part of) a message, other than in the context of MIME with appropriate headers, can render a message ineffective for unclarity, because the decoding step requires unreasonable effort within the meaning of CFJ 1460. CFJ 1741 (called 11 Sep 2007): HTML encoding (including numerical character entity encoding) does not render a message ineffective for unclarity if a suitable MIME type is indicated by a header. CFJ 1741 (called 11 Sep 2007): An email message does not need the RFC-required "MIME-Version:" header in order for it to be interpreted in the MIME way. CFJ 1770 (called 23 Oct 2007): A contract can redefine a rule-defined term in its own way, and the contract's definition will then apply in situations governed by the contract. CFJ 1885 (called 26 Jan 2008): A word or phrase can acquire a meaning by custom, provided that it is a reasonable meaning and does not unreasonably change the meaning of phrases that already have a meaning. CFJ 1831 (called 10 Dec 2007): Mentioning a URI, without surrounding text stating its significance, does not incorporate anything identified by that URI into the message that mentions the URI. CFJ 1831 (called 10 Dec 2007): Character sequences within a URI by default have no significance other than their functional role as part of the URI. CFJ 2258 (called 06 Nov 2008): Changes in whitespace are also inconsequential. CFJ 1139: Interpretations {judgements at the time of CFJ 1139} need not necessarily accord with the reasoning and arguments of Judges or Justices given in past CFJs. CFJ 3793 (called 16 Jan 2020): The "text of the rules", for the purposes of Rule 217, is the text of the rules as actually written, as agumented by the semantic context of applicable definitions. Substituting definitions into the text of a rule cannot eliminate unclarity caused by ambiguous grammar or other linguistic aspects. CFJ 3822 (called 19 Mar 2020): In the absence of a reason to think that things have changed, they can be presumed to have remained the same. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rule 1030/13 (Power=3.3) Precedence between Rules In a conflict between Rules, the conflict shall be resolved by performing the following comparisons in the sequence written in this rule, until the conflict is resolved. - In a conflict between Rules with different Power, the Rule with the higher Power takes precedence over the Rule with the lower Power; otherwise, - If all of the Rules in conflict explicitly say that their precedence relations are determined by some other Rule for determining precedence relations, then the determinations of the precedence-determining Rule shall be used to resolve the conflicts; otherwise, - If at least one of the Rules in conflict explicitly says of itself that it defers to another Rule (or type of Rule) or takes precedence over another Rule (or type of Rule), then such provisions shall be used to resolve the conflict, unless they lead to contradictions between each other; otherwise, - If any of the rules in conflict have ID numbers, then the Rule with the lowest ID number takes precedence; otherwise, - The Rule enacted earliest takes precedence. Clauses in any other rule that broadly claim precedence (e.g. over "all rules" of a certain class) shall be, prima facie, considered to be limited claims of precedence or deference that are applicable only when such claims are evaluated as described within the above sequence. No change to the ruleset can occur that would cause a Rule to directly claim precedence over this Rule as a means of determining precedence. This applies to changes by the enactment or amendment of a Rule, or of any other form. This Rule takes precedence over any Rule that would permit such a change to the ruleset. History: Initial mutable rule 212, Agora's birth Amended by P1030, 15 Sep 1994 Amended(1) by R750, 15 Sep 1994 Amended(2) by P1527, 24 Mar 1995 Amended(3) by P1603, 19 Jun 1995 Amended(4) by P2520, 10 Mar 1996 Mutated from MI=1 to MI=3 by P2763 (Steve), 30 Nov 1996 Amended(5) by P3445 (General Chaos), 26 Mar 1997 Amended(6) by P4887 'Periodic Spell Check' (Murphy), 22 Jan 2007 Amended(7) by P5110 'Regulate ID numbers' (Murphy), 02 Aug 2007 Amended(8) by P6285 'Precedence fix' (G.), 19 May 2009 Amended(9) by P6292 'combined precedence' (G.), 19 May 2009 Retitled by P6292 'combined precedence' (G.), 19 May 2009 Power changed from 3.0 to 3.2 by P6292 'combined precedence' (G.), 19 May 2009 Amended(10) by cleaning (Murphy), 16 Aug 2009 Amended(11) by P7235 'semicolon' (omd), 10 Jun 2012 Amended(12) by P7334 'Precedence of unnumbered rules' (woggle), 27 Mar 2013 Amended(13) by P8251 'Ruleset definition' (G.), 13 Oct 2019 Power changed from 3.2 to 3.3 by P8534 'Power Up' (Aris), 03 Feb 2021 Annotations: CFJ 1104 (called 20 Aug 1998): The presence in a Rule of deference clause, claiming that the Rule defers to another Rule, does not prevent a conflict with the other Rule arising, but shows only how the Rule says that conflict is to be resolved when it does arise. CFJ 1114-1115 (called 27 Jan 1999): This Rule is to be applied to resolve Rule conflicts on a case-by-case basis; just because a Rule is inapplicable in one situation due to conflict with a Rule of higher precedence does not mean that the Rule is nullified in all cases. CFJ 3796 (called 20 Jan 2020): If a situation can be arranged where a rule claims precedence over the rule defining precedence relations (currently R1030), the rules are inconsistent and the rule governing rule interpretation (currently R217) resolves the conflict. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rule 2240/1 (Power=3) No Cretans Need Apply In a conflict between clauses of the same Rule, if exactly one claims precedence over the other, then it takes precedence; otherwise, the later clause takes precedence. History: Enacted by P6073 'Regulate self-contradiction' (Murphy), 22 Feb 2009 Amended(1) by P6429 'Also, Crete must be destroyed' (Murphy), 18 Aug 2009 Annotations: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rule 105/25 (Power=3) Rule Changes When the rules provide that an instrument takes effect, it can generally: 1. enact a rule. The new rule has power equal to the minimum of the power specified by the enacting instrument, defaulting to one if the enacting instrument does not specify or if it specifies a power less than 0.1, and the maximum power permitted by other rules. The enacting instrument may specify a title for the new rule, which if present shall prevail. The ID number of the new rule cannot be specified by the enacting instrument; any attempt to so specify is null and void. 2. repeal a rule. When a rule is repealed, it ceases to be a rule, its power is set to 0, and the Rulekeepor need no longer maintain a record of it. 3. reenact a rule. A repealed rule identified by its most recent rule number MUST be reenacted with the same ID number. If no text is specified, the rule is reenacted with the same text it had when it was most recently repealed. If the reenacting proposal provides new text for the rule, the rule SHOULD have materially the same purpose as did the repealed version. Unless specified otherwise by the reenacting instrument, a reenacted rule has power equal to the power it had at the time of its repeal (or power 1, if power was not defined at the time of that rule's repeal). If the reenacting instrument is incapable of setting the reenacted rule's power to that value, then the reenactment is null and void. 4. amend the text of a rule. 5. retitle a rule. 6. change the power of a rule. A rule change is any effect that falls into the above classes. Rule changes always occur sequentially, never simultaneously. If a specification would ever be interpreted as causing multiple changes to happen at once, it is instead interpreted as attempting to cause them to occur separately, in the order they are listed in the specification. Any ambiguity in the specification of a rule change causes that change to be void and without effect. An inconsequential variation in the quotation of an existing rule does not constitute ambiguity for the purposes of this rule. Furthermore, if the change being specified would be clear to any reasonable player, the specification is not ambiguous, even if it is incorrect or unclear on its face. This provision does not prevent the specification of undesirable changes; for instance, an amendment which adds a typo is not corrected to remove the typo. A rule change is wholly prevented from taking effect unless its full text was published, along with an unambiguous and clear specification of the method to be used for changing the rule, at least 4 days and no more than 60 days before it would otherwise take effect. This rule provides the only mechanism by which rules can be created, modified, or destroyed, or by which an entity can become a rule or cease to be a rule. History: Enacted by P4894 'Red Tape Scam' (Murphy), 12 Feb 2007 Renumbered by P4894 'Red Tape Scam' (Murphy), 12 Feb 2007 Power changed from 1 to 3 by P4894 'Red Tape Scam' (Murphy), 12 Feb 2007 Retitled by P4894 'Red Tape Scam' (Murphy), 12 Feb 2007 Amended(1) by P4894 'Red Tape Scam' (Murphy), 12 Feb 2007 Amended(2) by P4940 'instrument mechanics' (Zefram), 29 Apr 2007 Amended(3) by P5110 'Regulate ID numbers' (Murphy), 02 Aug 2007 Assigned to the Committee on Rules by P6053 'Committees' (Murphy, woggle, ais523), 23 Jan 2009 Amended(4) by P6732 'Clarify inconsequentiality' [purple] (omd), 06 Jun 2010 Amended(5) by P6741 'Clarify inconsequentiality mk. 2' [purple, disi.] (omd), 01 Jul 2010 Amended(6) by P7433 'Rule Changes Fix' (Walker), 27 May 2013 Amended(7) by P7607 'Reenacting Rules' (OscarMeyr), 13 Dec 2013 Amended(8) by P7614 'Just Not Rights' (G.), 13 Jan 2014 Amended(9) by SLR ratification, 01 May 2014 Amended(10) by P7647 'formatting/misc fixes' (omd), 03 Jun 2014 Amended(11) by P7710 'Defining Reasonable Review' (G.), 03 Nov 2014 Amended(12) by P7759 'minor Powers v0.2' (G.), 19 Jul 2015 Amended(13) by R2430, 24 May 2017 Amended(14) by P7888 'BILLY MAYS HERE' (o, R. Lee), 26 Sep 2017 Amended(15) by P7940 'High Power Cleanup' (Alexis, G., P.S.S.), 06 Nov 2017 Amended(16) by P7940 'High Power Cleanup' (Alexis, G., P.S.S.), 06 Nov 2017 Amended(17) by P7969 'Obvious fix' (R. Lee, Alexis), 21 Nov 2017 Amended(18) by P7986 'Quick Fix' (P.S.S.), 03 Dec 2017 Amended(19) by P8030 'PAoaM Patch v4' (Aris, Gaelan, Trigon, G.), 30 Mar 2018 Amended(20) by cleaning (Janet), 26 Jul 2019 Amended(21) by P8354 'Statutory Instrumentation' (Alexis, Murphy, Aris, Gaelan), 21 Mar 2020 Amended(22) by P8539 'The Great Rollback' (Aris, G.), 11 Feb 2021 Amended(23) by P8871 'Unintuitive Rule Changes Fix' (nix), 11 Dec 2022 Amended(24) by P9058 'Things Mean What They're Meant to Mean' (Aris, G.), 03 Mar 2024 Amended(25) by P9074 'Close enough' (Janet), 07 Apr 2024 Annotations: CFJ 1499 (called 20 Apr 2004), CFJ 1623 (called 01 Apr 2007): If a low-power rule states that an officer can repeal the rule under certain circumstances, then the rule cannot actually be repealed by this process, because the officer, not being an instrument, is categorically incapable of performing rule changes; this is different from the situation where a rule can be triggered to repeal itself. CFJ 708 (called between 01 Oct 1994 and 31 Oct 1994): An Amendment of a non-existing Rule is not a legal Rule Change. CFJ 1625 (called 01 Apr 2007): Where a proposal specifies a rule to amend by both number and title, and the number and title given identify different rules, this constitutes ambiguity that nullifies the attempted rule change. CFJ 1644 (called 29 Apr 2007): Where a proposal contains the form of words "Change the power of rule NNNN to P and amend it by XXX.", where XXX specifies a text change, this constitutes two attempted rule changes. CFJ 1638 (called 29 Apr 2007): Where a proposal contains the form of words "Amend rule NNNN by XXX. Amend rule NNNN by YYY.", this constitutes two separate attempts at rule changes, even though both attempt to amend the same rule. CFJ 1642 (called 29 Apr 2007): Where a proposal contains the form of words "Amend rule NNNN by XXX. Further amend rule NNNN by YYY.", where both XXX and YYY specify text changes, this constitutes two separate attempts at rule changes. CFJ 1640 (called 29 Apr 2007): Where a proposal contains the form of words "Amend rule NNNN by XXX and YYY.", where both XXX and YYY specify text changes, this constitutes a single attempt at a rule change, even though it is specified in two parts. CFJ 1641 (called 29 Apr 2007): Where a proposal contains the form of words "Amend rule NNNN by XXX and by YYY.", where both XXX and YYY specify text changes, this constitutes a single attempt at a rule change, even though it is specified in two parts. CFJ 1643 (called 29 Apr 2007): Where a proposal specifies a single rule amendment in two parts, and one of the parts is not possible but the other is possible, the possible part is applied alone. CFJ 2201 (called 30 Sep 2008): The permission required by Rule 105 need not be explicit. CFJ 3830 (called 12 Apr 2020): Text in a rule cannot cause a rule-change after it has been deleted by an amendment. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rule 2493/11 (Power=3) Regulations A regulation is a textual entity defined as such by a Rule (its parent rule) and existing solely because that Rule defines its existence. A regulation has no effect other than those that the Rules explicitly give it. A regulation CAN be enacted, amended, and repealed as specified by its parent rule. Regulations are tracked by the Rulekeepor as part of eir monthly report in a fashion similar to rules. History: Enacted by P7865 'Regulations v4' (Aris, o, nix, ais523), 27 Jun 2017 Amended(1) by P7888 'BILLY MAYS HERE' (o, R. Lee), 26 Sep 2017 Amended(2) by P7925 'Safety Regulations v2' (Aris, Alexis), 22 Oct 2017 Amended(3) by P8056 'Deregulation Act v2' (Aris, G.), 01 Jul 2018 Power changed from 3.1 to 3 by P8056 'Deregulation Act v2' (Aris, G.), 01 Jul 2018 Amended(4) by P8076 'Regulation Patches' (Aris, G.), 26 Jul 2018 Amended(5) by P8108 'Uniform Regulatory Process Act' (Aris), 27 Oct 2018 Amended(6) by P8221 'Usage de-capitalization' (Janet, Aris), 05 Sep 2019 Amended(7) by P8240 'Regulation clarification' (Janet), 18 Sep 2019 Amended(8) by P8301 'Consolidated Regulatory Rulekeeping v2' (Aris, Janet), 29 Jan 2020 Amended(9) by P8645 'Some RTRW Clean-Ups' (ATMunn, nix), 15 Mar 2022 Amended(10) by P8894 'Load Lightening' (nix), 17 Feb 2023 Amended(11) by P9226 'Starting of Tournaments and Amendment of Regulations Act' (Janet, Kate), 03 May 2025 Annotations: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rule 2486/2 (Power=3.14) The Royal Parade _ _\ /_ >_X_< .---._ /_\ _.---. /`.---._`{/ \}`_.---.`\ | / ___`{\_/}`___ \ | \ \."`* `"{_}"` *`"./ / \ \ )\ _\ /_ /( / / \ *<()( >_X_< )()>* / |._)/._./_\._.\(_.| jgs |() () () () () ()| <><>><> `"""""""""""""""""""` IN CELEBRATION of Alexis being crowned Princess of Agora, without prejudice to Any before or since who may come to hold a Title whether Patent or otherwise; IT IS HEREBY PROCLAIMED that a Royal Parade be established, imbued in this very Rule, which shall travel around Agora to Rules of import; AND THEREFORE, the Rulekeepor SHOULD place this Rule near recently-amended rules of high Power; AND FURTHERMORE, additions to this Parade are most welcome when Events suiting the honour should occur. NEXT UP in the Parade comes the Discordian Court: G. the Grand Vizier is arguing with Janet the Untitled, while nix, Court Anarchist, is cramming cancelled ballots into eir pockets. History: Enacted by P7839 'Alexis' Decree' (o, Alexis), 17 Jan 2017 Amended(1) by P8533 'de-dictatorship' (G., Janet, nix), 03 Feb 2021 Amended(2) by P8920 'Adopted change re-application' (Janet), 12 Mar 2023 Annotations: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rule 1051/18 (Power=1) The Rulekeepor The Rulekeepor is an office; its holder is responsible for maintaining the text of the rules of Agora. The Rulekeepor's weekly report includes the Short Logical Ruleset. The Rulekeepor's monthly report includes the Full Logical Ruleset. History: Enacted by P399 (K. Anderson), around 28 Aug 1993 Amended by P1051, between 03 Aug 1994 and 12 Nov 1994 Amended(1) by P1735, 15 Oct 1995 Amended(2) by P2042, 11 Dec 1995 Amended(3) by P2048, 19 Dec 1995 Amended(4) by P2662, 12 Sep 1996 Amended(5) by P2696, 10 Oct 1996 Amended(6) by P2741 (Zefram), 07 Nov 1996 Infected and amended(7) by R1454, 27 Nov 1996 Amended(8) by P2783 (Chuck), 15 Jan 1997 Amended(9) by P3452 (Steve), 07 Apr 1997 Amended(10) by P3675 'The Rulekeepor should have an Official Report' (Michael), 30 Jan 1998 Amended(11) by P3827 'Fix monthly salaries' (Kolja A.), 04 Feb 1999 Amended(12) by P3871 'The Treasuror (Fixed)' (Peekee), 02 Jun 1999 Amended(13) by P3882 'Allow Spelling Changes' (harvel), 21 Jul 1999 Amended(14) by P3902 'Office Normalization' (Murphy), 06 Sep 1999 Amended(15) by P4002 'Officer Reform' (harvel), 08 May 2000 Amended(16) by P4250 'Omnibus Office Reform' (harvel), 19 Feb 2002 Amended(17) by P5237 'Comprehensive objective reporting' [disi.] (AFO), 03 Oct 2007 Amended(18) by cleaning (kiako), 02 Mar 2024 Annotations: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rule 1681/28 (Power=1) The Logical Rulesets The Short Logical Ruleset (SLR) is a format of the ruleset. In this format, each rule is assigned to a category, and the rules are grouped according to their category. Rules are assigned to, ordered within, or moved between categories, and categories are added, changed, or empty categories removed, as the Rulekeepor sees fit. The listing of each rule in the SLR must include the rule's ID number, power, title, and text. The listing of each rule in the SLR must additionally include a revision number selected by the Rulekeepor. The Rulekeepor SHOULD select revision numbers such that they can be used retrospectively to determine that the text of a rule has changed while it maintained the same ID number. The Rulekeepor may exercise reasonable discretion in calculating revision numbers. The Rulekeepor is strongly DISCOURAGED from including any additional information in the SLR, except that which increases the readability of the SLR. The Full Logical Ruleset (FLR) is a format of the ruleset. In this format, rules are assigned to the same category and presented in the same order as in the SLR. The FLR must contain all the information required to be in the SLR, and any historical annotations which the Rulekeepor is required to record. The Rulekeepor SHOULD also include any other information which e feels may be helpful in the use of the ruleset in the FLR. Whenever a rule is changed in any way, the Rulekeepor SHALL record and thereafter maintain a reasonably accurate historical annotation to the rule indicating: 1. The type of change. 2. The date on which the change took effect. 3. The mechanism that specified the change. 4. If the rule was changed due to a proposal, then that proposal's ID number, author, and coauthor(s) (if any). History: Enacted by P2783 (Chuck), 15 Jan 1997 Amended(1) by P3500 (Crito), 03 Jun 1997 Amended(2) by P3624 'No Passing the Buck' (General Chaos), 29 Dec 1997 Amended(3) by P3704 (General Chaos), 19 Mar 1998 Amended(4) by P3902 'Office Normalization' (Murphy), 06 Sep 1999 Amended(5) by P4002 'Officer Reform' (harvel), 08 May 2000 Amended(6) by P4811 'The Cobalt Repeals' (Maud, G.), 20 Jun 2005 Amended(7) by P4841 'Order categorical' (G.), 27 Oct 2005 Amended(8) by P4868 'Red Tape Repeals 2.0' (G.), 27 Aug 2006 Amended(9) by P4887 'Periodic Spell Check' (Murphy), 22 Jan 2007 Amended(10) by P5006 'discretionary annotations only' (Zefram), 18 Jun 2007 Amended(11) by P5110 'Regulate ID numbers' (Murphy), 02 Aug 2007 Amended(12) by P5334 'Refactor co-authors' (Murphy), 05 Dec 2007 Amended(13) by P5956 'random fixes part 1' (omd), 17 Nov 2008 Amended(14) by P6019 'Undo the scam already' (Murphy), 22 Dec 2008 Amended(15) by P6026 'Cleanup of Power=1 definitions' (Murphy), 22 Dec 2008 Amended(16) by P6053 'Committees' (Murphy, woggle, ais523), 23 Jan 2009 Amended(17) by P6124 'Nobody's using them, so might as well de-cruft' (ehird), 15 Mar 2009 Amended(18) by P6662 'Maternal courage' [green, disi.] (Murphy), 10 Mar 2010 Amended(19) by P7599 'Helpfulness' (Walker), 14 Sep 2013 Amended(20) by P7604 'Come back woggle!' (G.), 13 Dec 2013 Amended(21) by R2430, 24 May 2017 Amended(22) by P8296 'Divergence' (Aris, G.), 29 Jan 2020 Amended(23) by cleaning (Janet), 29 Jun 2020 Amended(24) by P9074 'Close enough' (Janet), 07 Apr 2024 Amended(25) by P9121 'More Rules, Less Complex' (juniper, mqyhlkahu), 21 Jun 2024 Amended(26) by P9129 'Amendments are hard, okay?' (Janet), 06 Jul 2024 Amended(27) by P9130 'Revision numbers, revised' (Janet, Gaelan), 06 Jul 2024 Amended(28) by P9159 'Simplification, ironically' (Janet), 01 Sep 2024 Annotations: CFJ 3904 (called 18 Apr 2021): A rule amendment that results in no net change in rule text need not be recorded. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rule 2221/11 (Power=3) Cleanliness and Tidy Filing Any player CAN clean a rule without objection by specifying one or more corrections to spelling, grammar, capitalization, formatting, and/or dialect, or to whether a synonym or abbreviation is used in place of a word or phrase, in the rule's text and/or title; when e does so, if any text changes were specified, that rule is amended by this rule by applying the changes as a single amendment (failing as a whole if any fail); then, if any title changes were specified, that rule is retitled by this rule by applying the changes as a single retitling (failing as a whole if any fail). Any player CAN refile a rule without objection, specifying a new title; the rule is retitled to the specified title by this rule. Cleaning rules is secured. Refiling rules is secured. History: Enacted by P5975 'This sounds like a job for the Rulekeepor' (Murphy), 25 Nov 2008 Amended(1) by P6098 'Popular cleanliness' (omd), 22 Jan 2009 Amended(2) by P6291 'Polish' (Murphy), 19 May 2009 Amended(3) by P6722 'Titles can be cleaned too' [green] (Murphy), 21 May 2010 Amended(4) by P6732 'Clarify inconsequentiality' [purple] (omd), 06 Jun 2010 Amended(5) by P6741 'Clarify inconsequentiality mk. 2' [purple, disi.] (omd), 01 Jul 2010 Repealed by P6961 '52-pickup v2' (G.), 03 Feb 2011 Re-enacted(6) at Power=3 and amended by P8000 'Older Cleanliness' (Alexis), 31 Jan 2018 Amended(7) by P8017 'RTRW Cleanups' (Alexis), 06 Mar 2018 Amended(8) by P8445 'Easier retitling' (Aris), 30 Jun 2020 Retitled by P8445 'Easier retitling' (Aris), 30 Jun 2020 Amended(9) by P8840 'Cleanliness security' (Janet), 30 Aug 2022 Amended(10) by P9009 'Ordered cleanliness' (Janet), 27 Sep 2023 Amended(11) by cleaning (Mischief), 19 May 2024 Annotations: CFJ 3800-3803 (called 25 Jan 2020): For a cleaning to replace a word with another word as a synonym, the two words must have exactly the same meaning. CFJ 3900 (called 23 Feb 2021): Changing an undefined term to a defined term is not a rule change allowed via cleaning, even if the undefined term is due to a typo/error. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rule 2429/2 (Power=1) Bleach Replacing a non-zero amount of whitespace with a different non-zero amount of whitespace is generally insignificant, except if doing so substantially changes the semantic, logical, or artistic structure of the text. History: Enacted by P7665 'Freedom to Amend' (Alexis), 03 Jun 2014 Amended(1) by P7709 'Nature abhors a vacuum' (Murphy), 03 Nov 2014 Amended(2) by P8922 'What's a paragraph anyway?' (G.), 19 Mar 2023 Annotations: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rule 2614/9 (Power=3.1) Eclipse Light An emergency message is one whose subject line contains the text "[Emergency]". The Prime Minister CAN, in an emergency message and with 3 Agoran consent, enact, amend, or repeal Emergency Regulations, provided that the intent to do so was also contained in an emergency message. To the extent explicitly permitted by this rule, Emergency regulations are always taking effect. Emergency Regulations CAN, as part of their effect: - Extend any deadline provided for by any instrument other than this rule, including a deadline for an obligation to be met, or deadline prior to which an action must be performed in order to be valid, such as the end of voting period. Such an extension CANNOT cause the total time period, such as the time from when an obligation was created to the deadline or the whole of a voting period, to be more than double its original length. - Create, destroy, or transfer assets, or require or forbid their creation, destruction, or transfer. - Collectively, exercise Mint Authority - Cause one or more players to win Agora. - Appoint or remove officeholders, other than Prime Minister or Speaker. - Modify the Festivity. - Award Patent Titles that are either Badges or are not mentioned in any Rule. - Modify the Publicity of Fora. The Prime Minister CAN, in an emergency message and with 4 Agoran Consent, provided that the intent to do so was also contained in an emergency message, Extend the Emergency. If there is an Emergency Regulation that has existed for at least a month and the Prime Minister has not Extended the Emergency in the past month, any player CAN, with 7 days notice, cause this rule to repeal all Emergency Regulations. If the Prime Minister has not sent a message to a public forum in the preceding four days, the Speaker CAN exercise eir powers under this rule as if e were the Prime Minister, and notwithstanding any rule that would prohibit a single player from holding both offices. Rules to the contrary notwithstanding, Emergency Regulations CANNOT be enacted, amended, or repealed except as described in this Rule. History: Enacted by P8360 'Social Distancing' (Alexis), 04 Apr 2020 Amended(1) by P8361 'Fix Emergencies' (Aris, Alexis), 04 Apr 2020 Amended(2) by P8362 'Recurring Emergencies' (Aris), 04 Apr 2020 Amended(3) by P8364 'Mint Regulations' (Aris), 04 Apr 2020 Amended(4) by P8369 'Emergency Termination Notice' (Aris), 21 Apr 2020 Amended(5) by P8490 'Functional Emergency Regulations' (Janet), 30 Aug 2020 Amended(6) by P8533 'de-dictatorship' (G., Janet, nix), 03 Feb 2021 Power changed from 3.01 to 3.1 by P8534 'Power Up' (Aris), 03 Feb 2021 Amended(7) by P8545 'Uncanny Fixes' (Aris, Murphy), 10 Mar 2021 Amended(8) by P8547 'ER office restriction' (Janet), 10 Mar 2021 Amended(9) by P8570 'Emergency Regulation Clarification' (Janet), 14 Jun 2021 Annotations: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ======================================================================== Voting Voting is used primarily for Proposals and Elections. This section describes Agoran Decisions and how to resolve them. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rule 693/17 (Power=3) Agoran Decisions When the rules call for an Agoran decision to be made, the decision-making process takes place in the following three stages, each described elsewhere: 1. Initiation of the decision. 2. Voting of the people. 3. Resolution of the decision. History: Initial mutable rule 205, Agora's birth Amended by P693 (Wes), 12 Nov 1993 Amended(1) by P1564 (Steve), 28 Apr 1995 Infected and amended(2) by R145, 14 Sep 1997 Amended(3) by R693, 28 Sep 1997 Amended(4) by P3809 'Ten Days is Too Long' (General Chaos), 07 Dec 1998 Amended(5) by P3921 'Eliminate Rules Conflicts I' (Wes), 03 Oct 1999 Amended(6) by P3968 'Cleanup with Quantifier Changes' (harvel), 04 Feb 2000 Power changed from 1 to 2 by P4040 'Upmutations' (Ørjan), 07 Aug 2000 Power changed from 2 to 3 by P4811 'The Cobalt Repeals' (Maud, G.), 20 Jun 2005 Amended(7) by P4811 'The Cobalt Repeals' (Maud, G.), 20 Jun 2005 Amended(8) by P4868 'Red Tape Repeals 2.0' (G.), 27 Aug 2006 Amended(9) by P4887 'Periodic Spell Check' (Murphy), 22 Jan 2007 Assigned to the Committee on Rules by P6053 'Committees' (Murphy, woggle, ais523), 23 Jan 2009 Amended(10) by P6403 'Your Presence is Requested' (Alexis), 30 Jul 2009 Amended(11) by P6441 'Move the synonym' [disi.] (Murphy), 27 Aug 2009 Amended(12) by P6452 'Move the synonym' [disi.] (Murphy), 27 Aug 2009 Amended(13) by P6465 'PRESENT Cleanup' [disi.] (Alexis), 15 Sep 2009 Amended(14) by P6617 'Fix repetition' [green, disi.] (Alexis), 04 Feb 2010 Amended(15) by P7778 'Instant Runoff Improved' (Alexis), 14 Aug 2015 Amended(16) by R2430, 24 May 2017 Amended(17) by cleaning (Murphy), 14 Feb 2021 Annotations: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rule 107/26 (Power=3) Initiating Agoran Decisions An Agoran decision is initiated when a person authorized to initiate it publishes a valid notice which sets forth the intent to initiate the decision. To be valid, the notice must clearly specify the following information: 1. The matter to be decided (for example, "the adoption of proposal 4781"); 2. The voting method; 3. A clear description of the valid options; 4. The identity of the vote collector; and 5. Any additional information defined by the rules as essential parameters. The publication of such a valid notice initiates the voting period for the decision. The default length of the voting period is 7 days. Changing the length of a decision's voting period is secured at power 2, and it CANNOT be set or changed to more than 14 days, or less than 5 days for a decision with at least two options. The vote collector for a decision with less than two options CAN end the voting period by announcement, if it has not ended already, and provided that e resolves the decision in the same message. A public notice purporting to initiate an Agoran decision is a self-ratifying attestation that the notice was valid, that the person (if any) publishing the notice was authorized to initiate the decision, and that such a decision was initiated. The destruction of an Agoran decision and the causing of an Agoran decision to cease being an Agoran decision are secured at the power of the Rule authorizing the initiation of such a decision. History: Initial immutable rule 107, Agora's birth Mutated from MI=unanimity to MI=3 by P1391, 24 Jan 1995 Amended(1) by P3889 'Minor Changes I' (harvel), 09 Aug 1999 Amended(2) by P4811 'The Cobalt Repeals' (Maud, G.), 20 Jun 2005 Amended(3) by P4868 'Red Tape Repeals 2.0' (G.), 27 Aug 2006 Amended(4) by P4964 'Disambiguate voter eligibility' (Murphy), 03 Jun 2007 Amended(5) by P5113 'Really Generalize Dependent Actions' (Murphy, Maud), 02 Aug 2007 Amended(6) by P5229 'Early announcement of voting options' (root), 27 Sep 2007 Amended(7) by P5413 'Fix minimum voting period requirements' (root), 26 Jan 2008 Amended(8) by P5445 'Satisfaction v3' (G., Murphy), 21 Feb 2008 Amended(9) by P5455 'Refactor initiation requirements' (Murphy), 01 Mar 2008 Amended(10) by P5948 'Fix elections, this time for real' [disi.] (Murphy), 15 Nov 2008 Assigned to the Committee on Rules by P6053 'Committees' (Murphy, woggle, ais523), 23 Jan 2009 Amended(11) by P6157 'No choice, no vote' (G., OscarMeyr, Wooble), 31 Mar 2009 Amended(12) by P6816 'Urgency' [purple] (G., Keba), 04 Sep 2010 Amended(13) by P6945 'Fix Urgency, Part Deux' [disi.] (Murphy, omd), 16 Jan 2011 Amended(14) by P6981 'Littler Dutch Boy' (Murphy, omd), 10 Apr 2011 Amended(15) by P7045 'Speed' (Walker), 16 May 2011 Amended(16) by P7606 'Cruise Control' (G.), 13 Dec 2013 Amended(17) by P7629 'Do Things' (Alexis), 07 Apr 2014 Amended(18) by P7778 'Instant Runoff Improved' (Alexis), 14 Aug 2015 Amended(19) by R2430, 24 May 2017 Amended(20) by P7953 'Vote Specification Fix' (Alexis), 12 Nov 2017 Amended(21) by P8270 'Self-ratifying statements' (omd), 11 Nov 2019 Amended(22) by P8533 'de-dictatorship' (G., Janet, nix), 03 Feb 2021 Amended(23) by P8545 'Uncanny Fixes' (Aris, Murphy), 10 Mar 2021 Amended(24) by P8585 'Clarify variable voting period' (Murphy), 23 Jun 2021 Amended(25) by P8978 'Authorized initiation' (Janet), 25 May 2023 Amended(26) by P9003 'Process Protection' (Janet, G.), 23 Jul 2023 Annotations: CFJ 1650 (called 06 May 2007): The intent to initiate the decision and the information required in the notice need not be explicit. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rule 2528/1 (Power=3) Voting Methods Each Agoran decision has a voting method, which must be AI-majority, instant runoff, or first-past-the-post. The voting method is that specified by the authorizing authority, or first-past-the-post by default. Each Agoran decision has a set of valid options (the choices that the voters are being asked to select from) and valid votes (the ways in which the voters can express their opinion or lack thereof). For AI-majority decisions, the valid options are FOR and AGAINST; for other decisions, the valid options are defined by other rules. The valid votes on an Agoran decision are: 1. PRESENT; 2. The valid conditional votes, as defined by rules of power at least that of this rule; and 3. For an instant runoff decision, the ordered lists of entities. 4. For any other decision, the valid options. History: Enacted by P7922 'Clarity Act' (Alexis), 23 Oct 2017 Amended(1) by P9173 'Mid-2024 Omnibus Cleanup Act' (Mischief, Murphy, ais523, Janet, 4st), 15 Sep 2024 Annotations: CFJ 3749 (called 01 Jul 2019): An instant runoff election ballot may be valid even if its list does not contain any valid options. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rule 683/27 (Power=3) Voting on Agoran Decisions An entity submits a ballot on an Agoran decision by publishing a notice satisfying the following conditions: 1. The ballot is submitted during the voting period for the decision. 2. The entity casting the ballot (the voter) was, at the initiation of the decision, a player. 3. The ballot clearly identifies the matter to be decided. 4. The ballot clearly identifies a valid vote, as determined by the voting method. 5. The ballot clearly sets forth the voter's intent to place the identified vote. 6. The voter has no other valid ballots on the same decision. A valid ballot is a ballot, correctly submitted, that has not been withdrawn. During the voting period of an Agoran decision, an entity CAN by announcement withdraw (syn. retract) a ballot that e submitted on that decision. To "change" one's vote is to retract eir previous ballot (if any), then submit a new one. Submitting and withdrawing ballots is secured. History: Initial mutable rule 207, Agora's birth Amended by P683 (Jeffrey S.), 10 Nov 1993 Amended(1) by P1473, 08 Mar 1995 Amended(2) by P1531, 24 Mar 1995 Amended(3) by P1554, 17 Apr 1995 Amended(4) by P1641, 01 Aug 1995 Amended(5) by P2590, 01 May 1996 Amended(6) by P3718 'Indelible Proposal Fixing' (Steve), 03 Apr 1998 Amended(7) by P3937 'Legislative Status Fix' (Wes), 31 Oct 1999 Amended(8) by P3968 'Cleanup with Quantifier Changes' (harvel), 04 Feb 2000 Amended(9) by P3972 'Voters and Legislators' (Peekee), 14 Feb 2000 Amended(10) by P4190 'Executors Revamped' (Steve), 18 Jul 2001 Amended(11) by P4699 'Change of Heart' (Sherlock), 18 Apr 2005 Power changed from 1 to 3 by P4811 'The Cobalt Repeals' (Maud, G.), 20 Jun 2005 Amended(12) by P4811 'The Cobalt Repeals' (Maud, G.), 20 Jun 2005 Amended(13) by P4964 'Disambiguate voter eligibility' (Murphy), 03 Jun 2007 Amended(14) by P5078 'refactor voting limits' (Zefram), 18 Jul 2007 Assigned to the Committee on Rules by P6053 'Committees' (Murphy, woggle, ais523), 23 Jan 2009 Amended(15) by P6378 'Changing votes' (Murphy), 03 Jul 2009 Amended(16) by P7032 'Flexibility (fixed)' (omd), 16 May 2011 Amended(17) by P7077 'Fix "fixed" flexibility' (omd), 16 Jun 2011 Amended(18) by P7629 'Do Things' (Alexis), 07 Apr 2014 Amended(19) by P7632 'All Activity is Good Activity' (Alexis), 01 May 2014 Amended(20) by P7647 'formatting/misc fixes' (omd), 03 Jun 2014 Amended(21) by P7778 'Instant Runoff Improved' (Alexis), 14 Aug 2015 Amended(22) by P7814 'FOR Require Intent on Ballots' (o), 28 Oct 2016 Amended(23) by decree given by Alexis, 10 Nov 2016 Amended(24) by R2430, 24 May 2017 Amended(25) by P7854 'Close Recent Loopholes v2' (ais523), 05 Jun 2017 Amended(26) by P8163 'Holey Loops, Batman!' (Kate), 22 Feb 2019 Amended(27) by P8533 'de-dictatorship' (G., Janet, nix), 03 Feb 2021 Annotations: CFJ 1609 (called 13 Jan 2007): To "clearly identif{y} the matter to be decided" does not necessarily require specifying it in detail. CFJ 1852-1853 (called 23 Dec 2007): Claiming to submit more votes than ones voting limit on the decision does not constitute the making of a false statement. CFJ 3647 (called 24 Jun 2018): To attempt to "vote in the same way as another player" is ambiguous, because it may refer to the other player's vote at the time of the message (an unconditional vote) or at the time of resolution (a conditional vote). CFJ 3860 (called 02 Jul 2020): An intentionally hidden ballot is not clearly cast and is therefore invalid. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rule 208/14 (Power=3) Resolving Agoran Decisions The vote collector for an unresolved Agoran decision CAN resolve it by announcement, indicating the outcome. If it was required to be initiated, then e SHALL resolve it in a timely fashion after the end of the voting period. To be EFFECTIVE, such an attempt must satisfy the following conditions: 1. It is published after the voting period has ended. 2. It clearly identifies the matter to be resolved. 3. It specifies the number of voters (or a list of the voters). For these purposes and for determining quorum, a "voter" is someone who submitted a ballot on the decision that was valid when it was submitted and also valid (i.e. not withdrawn or otherwise invalidated) at the end of the voting period. 4. It specifies the outcome, as described elsewhere, and, if there was more than one valid option, provides a tally of the voters' valid ballots. Each Agoran decision has exactly one vote collector, defaulting to the initiator of the decision. If the vote collector is defined by reference to a position (or, in the default case, if the initiator was so defined), then the vote collector is the current holder of that position. This rule takes precedence over any rule that would provide another mechanism by which an Agoran decision may be resolved. In general, changes to the gamestate due to the outcome of an Agoran decision take effect when the decision is resolved. History: Initial mutable rule 208, Agora's birth Amended(1) by P1401, 29 Jan 1995 Amended(2) by P1531, 24 Mar 1995 Power changed from 1 to 3 by P4811 'The Cobalt Repeals' (Maud, G.), 20 Jun 2005 Retitled to 'Resolving Agoran decisions' by P4811 'The Cobalt Repeals' (Maud, G.), 20 Jun 2005 Amended(3) by P4811 'The Cobalt Repeals' (Maud, G.), 20 Jun 2005 Amended(4) by P5113 'Really Generalize Dependent Actions' (Murphy, Maud), 02 Aug 2007 Amended(5) by P5229 'Early announcement of voting options' (root), 27 Sep 2007 Amended(6) by P5450 'Optional is optional' (Murphy), 27 Feb 2008 Amended(7) by P5453 'Proposals are a unique exception' (Murphy), 01 Mar 2008 Assigned to the Committee on Rules by P6053 'Committees' (Murphy, woggle, ais523), 23 Jan 2009 Amended(8) by P6746 'Decision Fixes' [purple, disi.] (Alexis), 01 Jul 2010 Amended(9) by P7259 'Kick out the Jams, er, Platonists' (Murphy), 06 Jul 2012 Amended(10) by P7420 'We don't need to be that idiosyncratic un-derp version' (omd), 27 May 2013 Retitled by P7753 'Title Caps Fix' (Alexis), 30 Jun 2015 Amended(11) by P7778 'Instant Runoff Improved' (Alexis), 14 Aug 2015 Amended(12) by R2430, 24 May 2017 Amended(13) by P8083 'quorum fixes' (G.), 01 Oct 2018 Amended(14) by P8468 'Decision resolution patch' (Janet, nix, G.), 08 Jul 2020 Annotations: CFJ 1711 (called 01 Aug 2007): If a purported resolution notice refers via a References: header to a previous notice with an incomplete vote tally and lists additional votes but does not give revised totals, this does not qualify as including a vote tally. CFJ 1810 (called 28 Nov 2007): If a purported resolution notice refers via an approximate date header to a previous notice with an incomplete vote tally and lists additional votes but does not give revised totals, this does qualify as including a vote tally. CFJ 1822 (called 04 Dec 2007): If a purported resolution notice includes invalid votes in its tally of votes, this makes the notice invalid. CFJ 3833 (called 04 Sep 2020): If a decision's initiation was never required (e.g. it was initiated via Manifesto while unpended) the vote collector is not required to resolve it. CFJ 3963 (called 16 May 2022): A "tally" of ballots is an account of the ballots cast which need not explicitly include a sum. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rule 955/27 (Power=3) Determining the Will of Agora Each Agoran decision has a voting method, which determines how voters may vote on it and how to calculate the outcome. The strength of a ballot is the voting strength of the voter who cast it on that Agoran decision, as calculated at the end of that decision's voting period. 1. For an AI-majority decision, let F be the total strength of all valid ballots cast FOR a decision, A be the same for AGAINST, and AI be the adoption index of the decision. The outcome is ADOPTED if F/A >= AI and F/A > 1 (or F>0 and A=0), otherwise REJECTED. 2. For an instant runoff decision, the outcome is whichever option wins according to the standard definition of instant runoff. For this purpose, a ballot of strength N is treated as if it were N distinct ballots expressing the same preferences. In case multiple valid options tie for the lowest number of votes at any stage, the vote collector CAN and must, in the announcement of the decision's resolution, select one such option to eliminate; if, for M > 1, all eir possible choices in the next M stages would result in the same set of options being eliminated, e need not specify the order of elimination. If an entity that is part of a valid vote is not a valid option at the end of the voting period, or disqualified by the rule providing for the decision, then that entity is eliminated prior to the first round of counting. 3. For a first-past-the-post decision, the outcome is whichever option received the highest total strength of valid ballots. In case of a tie, the vote collector CAN and must, in the announcement of the decision's resolution, select one of the leaders as the outcome. The previous notwithstanding: - If there is more than one option, and the number of voters is less than the quorum of that decision, the outcome is instead FAILED QUORUM. - If there are no valid options, the outcome is null. The outcome of a decision is determined when it is resolved, and cannot change thereafter. History: Initial mutable rule 209, Agora's birth Amended by P396 (KoJen), 23 Aug 1993 Amended by P658, 29 Oct 1993 Amended by P761 (Chuck), 08 Dec 1993 Amended by R750, 08 Dec 1993 Amended by P955 'Default Rules for Adopting Proposals' (Garth), 25 Jul 1994 Amended(1) by R750, 25 Jul 1994 Amended(2) by P1279, 24 Oct 1994 Amended(3) by P1531, 24 Mar 1995 Amended(4) by P1723, 06 Oct 1995 Mutated from MI=1 to MI=3 by P2398, 20 Jan 1996 Amended(5) by P3721 'Encourage VT spending' (Steve), 16 Apr 1998 Amended(6) by P3818 (Chuck), 21 Dec 1998 Amended(7) by P4263 'Fix Rule 955' (Steve), 04 Mar 2002 Amended(8) by P4302 'Fix Parliament' (Murphy), 17 May 2002 Amended(9) by P4412 'Real Majorities' (Steve), 06 Nov 2002 Amended(10) by P4811 'The Cobalt Repeals' (Maud, G.), 20 Jun 2005 Amended(11) by P4868 'Red Tape Repeals 2.0' (G.), 27 Aug 2006 Amended(12) by P5113 'Really Generalize Dependent Actions' (Murphy, Maud), 02 Aug 2007 Amended(13) by P5418 'Refactor Chamber' (root), 02 Feb 2008 Amended(14) by P5445 'Satisfaction v3' (G., Murphy), 21 Feb 2008 Amended(15) by P5783 'Fix dangling references' (Murphy), 22 Oct 2008 Amended(16) by P5948 'Fix elections, this time for real' [disi.] (Murphy), 15 Nov 2008 Assigned to the Committee on Rules by P6053 'Committees' (Murphy, woggle, ais523), 23 Jan 2009 Amended(17) by P6336 'Resolution cleanup' (Alexis), 29 May 2009 Amended(18) by P6403 'Your Presence is Requested' (Alexis), 30 Jul 2009 Amended(19) by P7238 'math downgrade' (omd), 10 Jun 2012 Amended(20) by P7772 'Tie-Breaking Votes' (Alexis), 10 Aug 2015 Amended(21) by P7778 'Instant Runoff Improved' (Alexis), 14 Aug 2015 Amended(22) by P7816 'Voting Strength Fix (PENDING, BUGGY)' (Alexis, o, aranea), 28 Oct 2016 Amended(23) by P7853 'Close Ancient Loopholes' (ais523), 05 Jun 2017 Amended(24) by P7912 'Election Campaigns' (Alexis), 15 Oct 2017 Amended(25) by P7922 'Clarity Act' (Alexis), 23 Oct 2017 Amended(26) by P8083 'quorum fixes' (G.), 01 Oct 2018 Amended(27) by P8533 'de-dictatorship' (G., Janet, nix), 03 Feb 2021 Annotations: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rule 879/40 (Power=3) Quorum Each Agoran decision has a quorum. This is a number set when the decision is created, and thereafter cannot be changed. When a person initiates an Agoran decision, that person SHALL state the quorum of that decision. However, incorrectly stating the quorum of a decision does not invalidate the initiation, nor does it actually change the quorum of the decision. The quorum that an Agoran decision gains as it is created can be defined by other rules of power 2 or greater. If no other rule defines the quorum of an Agoran decision, the quorum for that decision is equal to 2/3 of the number of voters on the referendum that had been most recently resolved at the time of that decision's initiation, the whole rounded to the nearest integer. As an exception to the previous paragraph, the minimum quorum of an Agoran decision is 2, or 1 if there are fewer than 2 players in the game. If the rules would attempt to set the quorum of an Agoran decision to less than the minimum quorum, it is set to the minimum instead. History: Initial mutable rule 201, Agora's birth Amended by P879 'Quorum' (Garth), 13 Apr 1994 Amended(1) by R750, 13 Apr 1994 Amended(2) by P1471, 08 Mar 1995 Amended(3) by P1554, 17 Apr 1995 Amended(4) by P1708, 04 Sep 1995 Infected and amended(5) by R1454, 27 Jul 1996 Amended(6) by P2786 (Steve), 15 Jan 1997 Amended(7) by P3643 'Lowered Quorum' (General Chaos), 29 Dec 1997 Amended(8) by P3777 'A collection of small fixes.' (Blob), 03 Aug 1998 Amended(9) by PA Separation of Powers (Steve), 20 Apr 1999 Amended(10) by P3897 'A Separation of Money but not of Powers' (harvel), 27 Aug 1999 Amended(11) by P3956 'Issues' (harvel), 28 Dec 1999 Amended(12) by P3972 'Voters and Legislators' (Peekee), 14 Feb 2000 Power changed from 1 to 2 by P3980 'The Oligarchy' (Steve), 01 Mar 2000 Amended(13) by P3980 'The Oligarchy' (Steve), 01 Mar 2000 Amended(14) by P4018 'Property and Democracy' (Kelly), 21 Jun 2000 Amended(15) by P4239 'Listen Up!' (Murphy), 29 Jan 2002 Amended(16) by P4276 'The Speaker's Veto' (Steve), 28 Mar 2002 Amended(17) by P4278 'Cold Storage' (harvel), 03 Apr 2002 Amended(18) by P4282 'Massive Political Reform' (G.), 16 Apr 2002 Amended(19) by P4311 'Fix Speaker's Veto' (root), 28 May 2002 Amended(20) by P4410 'Quorum on Parliamentary Proposals' (Steve), 06 Nov 2002 Amended(21) by P4576 'Oligarch in a Three-Piece Suit' (root), 31 May 2004 Amended(22) by P4665 'Deckmastor Perks' (Kolja), 09 Apr 2005 Amended(23) by P4811 'The Cobalt Repeals' (Maud, G.), 20 Jun 2005 Amended(24) by P4964 'Disambiguate voter eligibility' (Murphy), 03 Jun 2007 Amended(25) by P4997 'quorum fix (fixed)' (Zefram, Goddess Eris), 06 Jun 2007 Amended(26) by P5000 'Disambiguate voter eligibility' (Murphy), 12 Jun 2007 Amended(27) by P5113 'Really Generalize Dependent Actions' (Murphy, Maud), 02 Aug 2007 Amended(28) by P5445 'Satisfaction v3' (G., Murphy), 21 Feb 2008 Amended(29) by P7317 'Make quorum manipulation harder for Plutocratic proposals' (omd), 16 Oct 2012 Amended(30) by P7552 'Freshdated' (omd), 24 Aug 2013 Amended(31) by P7612 'Dynamic Quorum' (ais523), 11 Jan 2014 Amended(32) by P7632 'All Activity is Good Activity' (Alexis), 01 May 2014 Amended(33) by P7647 'formatting/misc fixes' (omd), 03 Jun 2014 Amended(34) by P7853 'Close Ancient Loopholes' (ais523), 05 Jun 2017 Amended(35) by P8095 'Quorum Reduction v2' (Aris, Murphy, D. Margaux), 28 Sep 2018 Amended(36) by cleaning (Alexis), 23 Jan 2020 Amended(37) by P8321 'Untying Quorum' (Aris), 13 Feb 2020 Amended(38) by P8338 'Clarify quorum (option 1)' (Murphy), 24 Feb 2020 Amended(39) by P8418 'Referenda' (Aris), 14 Jun 2020 Amended(40) by P8639 'sole quorum' (G.), 23 Feb 2022 Power changed from 2 to 3 by SLR 2023-06-19 ratification, 31 Dec 2023 Annotations: CFJ 1562 (called 03 May 2005): A cancelled vote on a Proposal does not count towards quorum. CFJ 1673-1675 (called 20 May 2007): Quorum for an Agoran decision changes as the set of eligible voters changes. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rule 2422/8 (Power=3) Voting Strength The voting strength of an entity on an Agoran decision is an integer between 0 and 15 inclusive, defined by rules of power 2 or greater. If not otherwise specified, the voting strength of an entity on an Agoran decision is 3. When multiple rules set or modify an entity's voting strength on an Agoran decision, it shall be determined by first applying the rule(s) which set it to a specific value, using the ordinary precedence of rules, and then applying the rules, other than this one, which modify it, in numerical order by ID. Finally, if the result of the calculation is not an integer, it is rounded up, and then if it is outside the allowable range of values for voting strength, it is set to the minimum value if it was less and the maximum value if it was more. History: Enacted by P7629 'Do Things' (Alexis), 07 Apr 2014 Amended(1) by P7816 'Voting Strength Fix (PENDING, BUGGY)' (Alexis, o, aranea), 28 Oct 2016 Amended(2) by P7831 'Vigilante Justice' (Alexis), 05 Dec 2016 Amended(3) by P8122 'Middle of the road' (Murphy), 12 Nov 2018 Amended(4) by cleaning (Falsifian), 28 Apr 2019 Amended(5) by cleaning (Murphy), 03 Nov 2019 Amended(6) by P8291 'Interesting Chambers v3.1' (Bernie, Trigon, Aris, Gaelan, G., Janet, Kate), 29 Jan 2020 Amended(7) by P8408 'Sets v1.4' (nix, Trigon, Falsifian, Publius Scribonius Scholasticus, Janet, Aris, G., ais523), 12 Jun 2020 Amended(8) by P8976 'Ruleset convergance' (Janet), 25 May 2023 Annotations: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rule 2127/11 (Power=3) Conditional Votes A conditional vote on an Agoran decision is a vote which indicates a vote based on some condition(s). A conditional vote is evaluated at the end of the voting period and, rules to the contrary notwithstanding, is clearly specified if and only if the value of the condition(s) is/are determinate at the end of the voting period. If the conditional is clearly specified, and evaluates to a valid vote, it is counted as that vote; otherwise, it is counted as PRESENT. Any vote which is clearly expressed as a conditional, e.g. "FOR if is true, AGAINST otherwise", is a valid conditional vote that evaluates as specified. A vote endorsing another person is equivalent to a conditional vote evaluating to the vote specified in that person's valid ballot on the decision, if any. For an instant runoff decision, a vote consisting of a list, one or more entries of which are valid conditional votes, and the remaining entries of which are valid options, is a valid conditional vote. Such a vote is evaluated by evaluating each conditional entry to a list of votes (or an empty list, if it evaluates to PRESENT either directly or indirectly), and then concatenating those lists with the specified valid options in the order they occurred in the original vote. History: Enacted by P4875 'If 2.0' (G.), 01 Dec 2006 Amended(1) by P5427 'Bandwagoning' (Murphy), 09 Feb 2008 Amended(2) by P5506 'These aren't votes any more' [disi.] (Murphy), 10 May 2008 Amended(3) by P5746 'The Notary web site is there to be used' (Murphy), 16 Oct 2008 Amended(4) by P6331 'Referential votes default to PRESENT' (Murphy), 29 May 2009 Amended(5) by P6383 'Clarify conditional votes' (Murphy), 03 Jul 2009 Amended(6) by P6403 'Your Presence is Requested' (Alexis), 30 Jul 2009 Amended(7) by P7289 (G.), 09 Sep 2012 Amended(8) by P7447 'Conditional votes should be Power-3' (omd), 10 Jun 2013 Amended(9) by P7447 'Conditional votes should be Power-3' (omd), 10 Jun 2013 Amended(10) by P7778 'Instant Runoff Improved' (Alexis), 14 Aug 2015 Amended(11) by P7922 'Clarity Act' (Alexis), 23 Oct 2017 Annotations: CFJ 2449 (called 14 Apr 2009): For an endorsement or denouncement, the identity of the voter in question is part of the condition. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rule 2168/10 (Power=2) Extending the Voting Period Whenever the voting period of an Agoran decision would end, and the result would be FAILED QUORUM, the length of the voting period for that decision is instead increased to 14 days, except if it is already that length, provided this has not already happened for the decision in question. Within four days of such an occurrence, the vote collector for the decision SHALL issue a humiliating public reminder naming the slackers who have not yet cast any votes on it despite being eligible players, and CAN end its voting period by announcement (resolving it constitutes an implicit announcement that its voting period is first ended) if the result would no longer be FAILED QUORUM, or if the decision is a referendum on a proposal and no voter (other than possibly the proposal's author) has voted FOR. History: Enacted by P5191 'Voting period extensions' (root), 06 Sep 2007 Amended(1) by P5979 'Clarify quorum alterations' (Murphy), 25 Nov 2008 Amended(2) by P6115 'Get on with it!' (Murphy), 01 Mar 2009 Amended(3) by P6294 'IADoP Must Announce FAILED QUORUM' (Yally), 19 May 2009 Amended(4) by P6328 'Get on with it, cleanly' (Murphy), 29 May 2009 Amended(5) by P6329 'Get on with killing it!' (Murphy), 29 May 2009 Amended(6) by P6504 'We don't need this exception' [disi.] (Murphy), 03 Oct 2009 Amended(7) by P7045 'Speed' (Walker), 16 May 2011 Amended(8) by P8418 'Referenda' (Aris), 14 Jun 2020 Retitled by refiling (Aris), 08 Aug 2020 Amended(9) by P8502 'Timely reminders' (Janet, Aris), 25 Sep 2020 Power changed from 1 to 2 by P8533 'de-dictatorship' (G., Janet, nix), 03 Feb 2021 Amended(10) by P9081 'Don't humiliate the recently departed' (Gaelan), 07 Apr 2024 Annotations: CFJ 3644 (called 18 Jun 2018): Players can't guarantee actual humiliation, so an indication that humiliation might occur is sufficient to fulfill the requirement that a reminder be humiliating. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rule 1950/39 (Power=3) Decisions with Adoption Indices Adoption index (AI) is an untracked switch possessed by Agoran decisions and proposals, secured at power 2. For decisions, the possible values are "none" (default) or integral multiples of 0.1 from 1.0 to 9.9. For proposals, the possible values are integral multiples of 0.1 from 1.0 to 9.9 (default 1.0). The adoption index of a referendum CANNOT be set or changed to "none" or to a value less than that of its associated proposal. If a referendum ever has an adoption index of "none" or an adoption index less than that of its associated proposal, it is immediately set to the adoption index of the associated proposal. Adoption index is an essential parameter of an Agoran decision if that decision has an adoption index. For any Agoran decision with a non-"none" adoption index, the voting method is AI-majority. History: Enacted by P4032 'Powerfix(2)' (t), 24 Jul 2000 Amended(1) by P4085 'Playing Roles' (Blob), 16 Nov 2000 Amended(2) by P4221 'The Neo-Oligarchy, again' (Steve), 10 Oct 2001 Amended(3) by P4282 'Massive Political Reform' (G.), 16 Apr 2002 Amended(4) by P4352 'Overhaul Parliamentary Voting' (OscarMeyr), 07 Aug 2002 Amended(5) by P4370 (OscarMeyr), 06 Sep 2002 Amended(6) by P4486 'Of what worth honor?' (Michael), 24 Apr 2003 Amended(7) by P4539 'Remember Remember' (G.), 16 Nov 2003 Amended(8) by P4576 'Oligarch in a Three-Piece Suit' (root), 31 May 2004 Amended(9) by P4624 'Crimson Go' (G.), 20 Nov 2004 Amended(10) by P4665 'Deckmastor Perks' (Kolja), 09 Apr 2005 Amended(11) by P4685 'Slight addenda to two rules' (Quazie), 18 Apr 2005 Power changed from 2 to 3 by P4811 'The Cobalt Repeals' (Maud, G.), 20 Jun 2005 Amended(12) by P4811 'The Cobalt Repeals' (Maud, G.), 20 Jun 2005 Amended(13) by P4868 'Red Tape Repeals 2.0' (G.), 27 Aug 2006 Amended(14) by P4972 'No free votes II' (Goddess Eris), 23 May 2007 Amended(15) by P4964 'Disambiguate voter eligibility' (Murphy), 03 Jun 2007 Amended(16) by P5000 'Disambiguate voter eligibility' (Murphy), 12 Jun 2007 Amended(17) by P5007 'generalize naturalhood' (Zefram), 18 Jun 2007 Amended(18) by P5047 'Fix Support for Democracy 1.1' (root), 01 Jul 2007 Retitled by P5078 'refactor voting limits' (Zefram), 18 Jul 2007 Amended(19) by P5078 'refactor voting limits' (Zefram), 18 Jul 2007 Retitled by P5418 'Refactor Chamber' (root), 02 Feb 2008 Amended(20) by P5418 'Refactor Chamber' (root), 02 Feb 2008 Amended(21) by P6961 '52-pickup v2' (G.), 03 Mar 2011 Retitled to 'Decisions with Adoption Indices' by P7013 'Ordinary Decisions' (omd), 23 Apr 2011 Amended(22) by P7013 'Ordinary Decisions' (omd), 23 Apr 2011 Amended(23) by P7083 'Re-jigged Re-jiggery' (Walker), 04 Jul 2011 Amended(24) by P7216 'Fix some definitions' (omd), 04 May 2012 Amended(25) by P7239 'this has been broken for a long time' (omd), 10 Jun 2012 Amended(26) by P7274 'Voting Chambers' (FKA441344), 14 Aug 2012 Amended(27) by P7296 'Power On' (Alexis), 09 Sep 2012 Amended(28) by P7416 'Not my job' (omd), 12 May 2013 Amended(29) by P7610 'Low-hanging Fruit' (G.), 22 Dec 2013 Amended(30) by P7629 'Do Things' (Alexis), 07 Apr 2014 Amended(31) by P7778 'Instant Runoff Improved' (Alexis), 14 Aug 2015 Amended(32) by P7832 'Quintessential Parameters' (Alexis), 05 Dec 2016 Amended(33) by P8200 'Sane AI Defaulting' (Aris), 10 Jul 2019 Amended(34) by P8241 'Secured switches (v2.0)' (Janet, Falsifian), 18 Sep 2019 Amended(35) by cleaning (Alexis), 23 Jan 2020 Amended(36) by P8566 'Anti-AI escalation' (Janet), 14 Jun 2021 Amended(37) by P8579 'AI voting method clarification v2' (Janet, Trigon), 23 Jun 2021 Amended(38) by P9036 'AI security revisited' (Janet, ais523), 10 Dec 2023 Amended(39) by P9119 'Say It Once Mk II' (Mischief), 26 Jun 2024 Annotations: CFJ 1885 (called 26 Jan 2008): "AGAINT" is a variant spelling of "AGAINST", not a customary synonym for "FOR", despite its former private usage with the latter meaning. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rule 2034/12 (Power=3) Vote Protection and Cutoff for Challenges A public message purporting to resolve an Agoran decision is a self-ratifying attestation that 1. such a decision existed, 2. it had the number of voters indicated, 3. it was resolved as indicated, and 4. (if the indicated outcome was to adopt a proposal) such a proposal existed, was adopted, and, if it had not previously taken effect, took effect. History: Enacted by P4366 'Protect the Voting System' (Steve), 23 Aug 2002 Amended(1) by P4637 'Fix Shareholder Errors' (Murphy), 19 Feb 2005 Amended(2) by P4811 'The Cobalt Repeals' (Maud, G.), 20 Jun 2005 Amended(3) by P5212 'Refactor ratification' (Murphy), 08 Sep 2007 Amended(4) by P5275 'Clarify ratification' (Murphy), 07 Nov 2007 Amended(5) by P6139 'Pragmatize decisions' (Murphy), 15 Mar 2009 Amended(6) by P6180 'Pragmatize decisions properly' [disi.] (Murphy), 07 Apr 2009 Amended(7) by P7355 'Allow identification of self-relying decision documents' (ais523), 07 Apr 2013 Amended(8) by P7585 'Remove useless vote protection' (omd), 24 Aug 2013 Amended(9) by R2430, 24 May 2017 Amended(10) by P8083 'quorum fixes' (G.), 01 Oct 2018 Amended(11) by P8270 'Self-ratifying statements' (omd), 11 Nov 2019 Amended(12) by P8351 'Double proposal application fix' (Janet), 21 Mar 2020 Annotations: CFJ 3618 (called 30 Nov 2017): A resolution of a decision to adopt a proposal constitutes a self-ratifying claim that the proposal took effect even if the resolution disclaims otherwise. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ======================================================================== Offices & Reporting Players who hold offices have control over and track various different mechanics. These rules govern the special responsibilities that officers have. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rule 1006/49 (Power=2) Offices An Office is a position described as an Office by the Rules. Officeholder is an office switch tracked by the ADoP, with possible values of any person or "vacant" (default). Each instance of the Officeholder switch is secured at the power of the Rule defining the associated office (or the power of this Rule, if the defining Rule's power is higher). An officer is the holder of an office, who may be referred to by the name of that office. If the holder of an office is ever not a player, it becomes vacant. Imposed offices and sortitioned offices are offices described as such by the rules that define them. All other offices are elected. An office is voluntary if and only if it is elected or sortitioned. The selection method for a sortitioned office is a sortition for that office. The selection method for an elected office is an election for that office. A person CANNOT be made the holder of a voluntary office without eir consent. A person voluntarily entering emself into the selection method of that office always satisfies this requirement, regardless of whether it meets the normal definition of consent. The holder of a voluntary office CAN resign it by announcement, causing it to become vacant. Any player CAN cause a voluntary office to become vacant without 2 objections. The non-interim holder of an elected office CAN, with 3 support, resign the office while appointing another player to become the holder of the office, provided that other player is one of the supporters. Immediately after a proposal finishes taking effect, if one or more offices exist that did not exist prior to the proposal taking effect, each such office, if it is vacant, becomes held by the author of the proposal. History: Enacted by P386 (Alexx), 16 Aug 1993 Amended by P733 (R. Kunne), 24 Nov 1993 Amended by P881 'Default Rules for Officers' (Garth), around 13 Aug 1994 Amended by R750, around 13 Aug 1994 Amended by P1006, around 25 Aug 1994 Amended(1) by R750, around 25 Aug 1994 Amended(2) by P1336, 22 Nov 1994 Amended(3) by P1582, 15 May 1995 Amended(4) by P1699, 01 Sep 1995 Amended(5) by P1763, 31 Oct 1995 Amended(6) by P2442, 06 Feb 1996 Amended(7) by P2623, 19 Jun 1996 Amended(8) by P3902 'Office Normalization' (Murphy), 06 Sep 1999 Amended(9) by P4002 'Officer Reform' (harvel), 08 May 2000 Amended(10) by P4250 'Omnibus Office Reform' (harvel), 19 Feb 2002 Amended(11) by P4868 'Red Tape Repeals 2.0' (G.), 27 Aug 2006 Amended(12) by P4887 'Periodic Spell Check' (Murphy), 22 Jan 2007 Amended(13) by P4889 'Two more fixes' (Murphy), 22 Jan 2007 Amended(14) by P4939 'Re-divide some offices' (Murphy), 29 Apr 2007 Amended(15) by P4956 'Finish re-dividing some offices' (Murphy), 07 May 2007 Amended(16) by P4980 'Don't force redundant elections' (Murphy), 31 May 2007 Amended(17) by P5029 'Minor Order fixes' (Murphy), 28 Jun 2007 Amended(18) by P5059 'simple elections for office' (Zefram, G.), 09 Jul 2007 Amended(19) by P5070 'speaker is an office' (Zefram), 11 Jul 2007 Amended(20) by P5088 'Compensate for vacant offices and speaker as an office' (Murphy), 25 Jul 2007 Amended(21) by P5103 'simpler deputisation' (Zefram), 01 Aug 2007 Power changed from 1 to 2 by P5133 'pragmatify officeholding' (Zefram), 13 Aug 2007 Amended(22) by P5133 'pragmatify officeholding' (Zefram), 13 Aug 2007 Amended(23) by P5239 'Official frequencies' (AFO), 03 Oct 2007 Amended(24) by P5407 'Re-officiating the speaker' (root), 22 Jan 2008 Amended(25) by P5519 'Allow resignation' (Murphy), 28 May 2008 Amended(26) by P5534 'Fix imposed office resignations' [disi.] (root), 07 Jun 2008 Amended(27) by P5986 'Refactor duty to fill vacancies' (Murphy), 07 Dec 2008 Amended(28) by P6023 'Cleanup of Power=2 definitions' (Murphy), 22 Dec 2008 Assigned to the Committee on Administration by P6053 'Committees' (Murphy, woggle, ais523), 23 Jan 2009 Amended(29) by P6372 'Transition Team' (G.), 23 Jun 2009 Amended(30) by cleaning (Murphy), 16 Aug 2009 Amended(31) by P6482 'Kick out inactive officers quickly' (omd), 18 Sep 2009 Amended(32) by cleaning (Murphy), 06 Mar 2010 Amended(33) by P6790 'Assumption Makes This Unnecessary' [red] (Wooble), 27 Aug 2010 Amended(34) by P6959 'Fugue in G.' (G.), 31 Jan 2011 Amended(35) by P7272 (FKA441344), 14 Aug 2012 Amended(36) by P7403 'Avoid "casual" vacancies with a carrot' (omd), 27 Apr 2013 Amended(37) by P7586 'Self-ratification, victory, office changes' (omd), 24 Aug 2013 Amended(38) by P7629 'Do Things' (Alexis), 07 Apr 2014 Amended(39) by P7807 's/I(?=ADoP)//' (aranea), 10 Aug 2016 Amended(40) by P7912 'Election Campaigns' (Alexis), 15 Oct 2017 Amended(41) by P7958 'Succession Planning' (G.), 12 Nov 2017 Amended(42) by P8074 'Office Patch' (Aris, G., P.S.S.), 26 Jul 2018 Amended(43) by P8190 'Report Rewards' (G., D. Margaux), 23 Jul 2019 Amended(44) by P8221 'Usage de-capitalization' (Janet, Aris), 05 Sep 2019 Amended(45) by P8561 'Election Cycle' (G., nix), 14 Jun 2021 Amended(46) by P8944 'Effecting change' (Janet, ais523), 16 Apr 2023 Amended(47) by P9012 'Official security' (Janet), 31 Oct 2023 Amended(48) by P9109 'Sortition' (nix, Janet), 12 May 2024 Amended(49) by P9136 'Sorting out sortition' (Janet, Kate, Mischief), 13 Jul 2024 Annotations: CFJ 1660 (called 13 May 2007): This rule does not define the meaning of the term "office", in the sense meant by Rule 754, but rather references the usual English definition of "office" and governs offices as thus defined. CFJ 1702 (called 12 Jul 2007): A requirement to submit something to an officer is satisfied by publishing it, even if that office is vacant at the time. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rule 2630/3 (Power=2.0) The Administrative State Each officer CAN, with 1.5 Agoran consent, enact, amend, or repeal eir own office's Administrative Regulations. If e has won an election for the office in the past 7 days, e CAN repeal them by announcement. Administrative Regulations have the following properties: 1. An officer SHALL NOT violate requirements in eir office's administrative regulations clearly intended to be punishable as rules violations in the discharge of eir office. 2. Any player CAN act on behalf of an officer to exercise eir official powers as authorized by eir office's administrative regulations. 3. All players SHOULD abide by an officer's administrative regulations in matters relating to eir area of responsibility. History: Enacted by P8448 'Populist Administration' (Aris, Alexis, Falsifian), 30 Jun 2020 Amended(1) by P8469 'Bureaucratic Reenginerring' (Aris, Alexis, Falsifian, nix, G.), 08 Jul 2020 Amended(2) by P8858 'Regulation Regulation' (snail), 01 Oct 2022 Amended(3) by P9133 'Last from the Past' (snail), 06 Jul 2024 Annotations: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rule 2651/1 (Power=2) The Election Cycle A holder of an elected office who did not become its holder by winning an election, and has not won an election for that office since, is an interim holder. An elected office that is either vacant or has an interim holder is an interim office. An office is term-limited if the most recent election for that office was resolved more than the length of that office's term prior. The term for the office of Prime Minister is 90 days. The term for all other elected offices is 180 days. A player CAN initiate an election for a specified elected office: a) With 2 support (if the office is either interim or term- limited) or 4 support (otherwise), and provided that the initiator becomes a candidate in the same message. b) By announcement, if e is the ADoP (or, if the office is the ADoP, if e is the Assessor) and the office is interim, or if e is the holder of that office. Once per quarter, the ADoP CAN and SHALL publish a Notice of Election specifying between 2-4 term-limited offices (if there fewer than 2 term-limited offices, the ADoP MUST instead list all of them). Such a notice initiates elections for the specified offices. The ADoP SHOULD prioritize offices that have gone longest since their last elections. The above notwithstanding, an election for an office CANNOT be initiated if one is already in progress. History: Enacted by P8561 'Election Cycle' (G., nix), 14 Jun 2021 Amended(1) by P8890 'Here comes a new challenger!' (Murphy, 4st, G.), 14 Feb 2023 Annotations: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rule 2154/61 (Power=2) Election Procedure When an election is initiated, it enters the nomination period, which lasts for 4 days. After an election is initiated and until nominations close, any player CAN become a candidate by announcement. A candidate ceases to be a candidate if e ceases to be a player during the election or if holding the office would make em Overpowered. During the nomination period, a candidate CAN cease to be a candidate by announcement if there is at least one other candidate. Each candidate in an election is ENCOURAGED to campaign by indicating why e would be the best choice, and (if applicable) how e would run the office differently than the previous holder. The ADoP SHOULD remind candidates to campaign. An election whose nomination period is complete is contested if it has two or more candidates, and uncontested otherwise. Nominations close at the end of the poll's voting period or when the election is ended, whichever comes first. After the nomination period ends, the ADoP (or, if the office is the ADoP, the Assessor) CAN and, in a timely fashion, SHALL: 1) If the election is contested, initiate an Agoran decision to select the winner of the election (the poll). For this decision, the Vote Collector is the ADoP (or, if the office is the ADoP, the Assessor), the valid options are the candidates for that election (including those who become candidates after its initiation), and the voting method is instant runoff. When the poll is resolved, its outcome, if a player, wins the election. If the outcome is not a player, the election ends with no winner. 2) If POSSIBLE per the following paragraph, end the election immediately. If at any point an uncontested election has a single candidate, then any player CAN by announcement declare em the winner of the election, thereby causing em to win the election. If at any point an uncontested election has no candidates, then any player CAN declare the election ended with no winner by announcement. When a player wins an election, e is installed into the associated office and the election ends. History: Enacted by P5059 'simple elections for office' (Zefram, G.), 09 Jul 2007 Amended(1) by P5096 'Fix election quorum' [disi.] (Murphy), 25 Jul 2007 Amended(2) by P5108 'time limits in election' [disi.] (Zefram), 02 Aug 2007 Amended(3) by P5133 'pragmatify officeholding' (Zefram), 13 Aug 2007 Amended(4) by P5224 'Re-enact perpetuity' (Murphy), 23 Sep 2007 Amended(5) by P5407 'Re-officiating the speaker' (root), 22 Jan 2008 Amended(6) by P5452 'Minor election improvements' (Murphy), 01 Mar 2008 Amended(7) by P5453 'Proposals are a unique exception' (Murphy), 01 Mar 2008 Amended(8) by P5491 'This sounds like a job for the IADoP' (Murphy), 23 Apr 2008 Amended(9) by P5497 'No uncontested elections' [disi.] (Murphy), 23 Apr 2008 Amended(10) by P5499 'Fixing Elections v2' (G.), 23 Apr 2008 Amended(11) by P5503 'No elections for imposed offices' (root), 01 May 2008 Amended(12) by P5608 'This sounds like a job for the IADoP' (Murphy), 29 Jul 2008 Amended(13) by P5609 'Prevent last-minute unwanted nominations' (Murphy), 29 Jul 2008 Amended(14) by P5683 'Fix Elections' (Wooble), 08 Sep 2008 Amended(15) by SLR ratification, 24 Sep 2008 Amended(16) by P5730 'Fix the ratification error' [disi.] (omd), 07 Oct 2008 Amended(17) by P5806 'Stuck Offices' [disi.] (Wooble), 30 Oct 2008 Amended(18) by P5797 (Taral), 03 Nov 2008 Amended(19) by P5831 'Fix elections' (Murphy), 06 Nov 2008 Amended(20) by P5998 'Senator-only elections' (Sgeo), 07 Dec 2008 Assigned to the Committee on Administration by P6053 'Committees' (Murphy, woggle, ais523), 23 Jan 2009 Amended(21) by P6157 'No choice, no vote' (G., OscarMeyr, Wooble), 31 Mar 2009 Amended(22) by P6293 'Stop IADoP Abuse' (G.), 19 May 2009 Amended(23) by P6296 'Precedence in elections' (Murphy), 19 May 2009 Amended(24) by P6305 'No extra votes' (Taral), 26 May 2009 Amended(25) by P6356 'IADoP CAN and SHALL' (Yally), 23 Jun 2009 Amended(26) by P6396 'An Election Issue' (Yally), 17 Jul 2009 Amended(27) by P6403 'Your Presence is Requested' (Alexis), 30 Jul 2009 Amended(28) by P6411 'Terms and Vacancies 2.0' (Yally), 30 Jul 2009 Amended(29) by P6651 'PRESENT cleanup' [red] (Alexis), 10 Mar 2010 Amended(30) by P6665 's/if not/unless/' [green, disi.] (Murphy), 10 Mar 2010 Amended(31) by P6696 [purple] (Alexis), 25 Apr 2010 Amended(32) by P6845 'Do it there instead instead instead' (the Warrigal), 03 Oct 2010 Amended(33) by P6969 'Broken arrows' (Murphy), 20 Mar 2011 Amended(34) by P6972 'Assumed Elections' (G.), 30 Mar 2011 Amended(35) by P7425 'Yaks' (Walker, G., Murphy, omd), 27 May 2013 Amended(36) by P7465 (Walker), 17 Jun 2013 Amended(37) by P7470 'Finish d-ASAP'ing' [disi.] (woggle), 17 Jun 2013 Amended(38) by P7586 'Self-ratification, victory, office changes' (omd), 24 Aug 2013 Amended(39) by P7610 'Low-hanging Fruit' (G.), 22 Dec 2013 Amended(40) by P7610 'Low-hanging Fruit' (G.), 22 Dec 2013 Amended(41) by P7610 'Low-hanging Fruit' (G.), 22 Dec 2013 Amended(42) by P7629 'Do Things' (Alexis), 07 Apr 2014 Amended(43) by P7632 'All Activity is Good Activity' (Alexis), 01 May 2014 Amended(44) by P7645 'Election fix' (omd), 03 Jun 2014 Amended(45) by P7654 'Write-in Votes in Longer Elections' (Alexis), 03 Jun 2014 Amended(46) by P7658 'Election Danger' (Alexis), 03 Jun 2014 Amended(47) by P7684 'Nomination Fixes' (Alexis), 01 Aug 2014 Amended(48) by P7778 'Instant Runoff Improved' (Alexis), 14 Aug 2015 Amended(49) by P7807 's/I(?=ADoP)//' (aranea), 10 Aug 2016 Amended(50) by R2430, 24 May 2017 Amended(51) by P7912 'Election Campaigns' (Alexis), 15 Oct 2017 Amended(52) by P8013 'Must elections be political?' (G.), 24 Feb 2018 Amended(53) by P8221 'Usage de-capitalization' (Janet, Aris), 05 Sep 2019 Amended(54) by cleaning (Falsifian), 20 Oct 2019 Amended(55) by P8258 'Elections Fix' (Janet), 03 Nov 2019 Amended(56) by P8276 'Various Election Fixes v2' (Janet), 01 Dec 2019 Amended(57) by P8276 'Various Election Fixes v2' (Janet), 01 Dec 2019 Amended(58) by P8393 'Elections Aren't Over Till They End' (Aris), 03 Jun 2020 Amended(59) by P8439 'Termination of Candidacy' (Publius Scribonius Scholasticus), 18 Jun 2020 Amended(60) by P8561 'Election Cycle' (G., nix), 14 Jun 2021 Amended(61) by P8967 'Campaign Please' (nix), 19 May 2023 Annotations: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rule 2573/4 (Power=2) Impeachment Any player CAN, with 2 Agoran consent, expel (impeach) the holder of a specified voluntary office. When a person is impeached from an office, the selection method for that office is immediately initiated (if possible). Players SHOULD NOT use this method of removal unless the officer has abused the powers of eir office or otherwise shown emself unworthy of the trust of Agora. History: Enacted by P8036 'Impeachment' (Aris), 27 Apr 2018 Amended(1) by P8221 'Usage de-capitalization' (Janet, Aris), 05 Sep 2019 Amended(2) by P8545 'Uncanny Fixes' (Aris, Murphy), 10 Mar 2021 Amended(3) by P8942 'Cleaning' (4st), 16 Apr 2023 Amended(4) by P9136 'Sorting out sortition' (Janet, Kate, Mischief), 13 Jul 2024 Annotations: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rule 2160/27 (Power=3) Deputisation A player acting as emself (the deputy) CAN perform an action ordinarily reserved for an office-holder as if e held the office if all of the following are true: 1) The rules require the holder of that office, by virtue of holding that office, to perform the action. (This requirement is fulfilled by the deputy performing the action.) 2) It would be POSSIBLE for the deputy to perform the action, other than by deputisation, if e held the office. 3) The deputy, when performing the action, announces that e is doing so by deputisation or by temporary deputisation. 4) The deputy has not held the office in the past 7 days. (If the office is vacant, then the remaining items in this list need not be true.) 5) A time limit by which the rules require the action to be performed has expired. 6) The office's holder has not changed in the past 7 days. 7) Any of the following are true: a) The deputy announced between 2 and 14 days earlier that e intended to deputise for that office for the purposes of the particular action. b) The time limit expired between 14 and 28 days ago. c) The time limit expired more than 28 days ago, and the deputisation is temporary. When a player deputises for a voluntary office, e becomes the holder of that office, unless the deputisation is temporary, doing so would make em Overpowered, and/or the action being performed would already install someone into that office. History: Enacted by P5103 'simpler deputisation' (Zefram), 01 Aug 2007 Amended(1) by P5200 'no indefinite deputisation notice' [disi.] (Zefram), 08 Sep 2007 Amended(2) by P5414 'Generalise deputisation' (Murphy), 26 Jan 2008 Amended(3) by P5454 'Close Pandora's box' (Murphy), 09 Mar 2008 Power changed from 1 to 3 by P5983 'Stronger Depatation' (the Warrigal), 29 Nov 2008 Assigned to the Committee on Administration by P6053 'Committees' (Murphy, woggle, ais523), 23 Jan 2009 Amended(4) by P6129 'IADoP Bootstrap' (G.), 15 Mar 2009 Amended(5) by P6144 'Faster Deputies' (Wooble), 23 Mar 2009 Amended(6) by P6218 'Deputised duties go away' (Murphy), 27 Apr 2009 Amended(7) by P6482 'Kick out inactive officers quickly' (omd), 18 Sep 2009 Amended(8) by P7300 'Explicit Deputisation' (Alexis), 27 Sep 2012 Amended(9) by P7403 'Avoid "casual" vacancies with a carrot' (omd), 27 Apr 2013 Amended(10) by P7629 'Do Things' (Alexis), 07 Apr 2014 Amended(11) by P7651 'Sillier Scams' (Alexis), 03 Jun 2014 Amended(12) by P7652 'Deputy Cleanup' (Alexis), 03 Jun 2014 Amended(13) by P7713 'Speedliness' (the Warrigal), 09 Nov 2014 Amended(14) by P7804 'Fixed Easier Deputisation' (nix), 31 Jul 2016 Amended(15) by R2430, 24 May 2017 Amended(16) by P7918 'Vacant Deputisation Fix' (Publius Scribonius Scholasticus), 15 Oct 2017 Amended(17) by P8018 'Random Bad Rule Cleaning' (Alexis), 06 Mar 2018 Amended(18) by cleaning (D. Margaux), 30 Sep 2018 Amended(19) by P8159 'Temporary Deputies' (G.), 22 Feb 2019 Amended(20) by P8228 'Active Officers' (G., Janet), 05 Sep 2019 Amended(21) by P8268 'Deputisation fix' (Janet), 11 Nov 2019 Amended(22) by cleaning (Kate), 23 Jan 2020 Amended(23) by P8646 'Deputisation rewrite' (Janet, G., ais523), 15 Mar 2022 Amended(24) by P8901 'Clarify deputisation' (Murphy), 26 Feb 2023 Amended(25) by P9106 'No Overpowered Deputizations' (snail, Janet, Murphy, Juniper), 12 May 2024 Amended(26) by P9136 'Sorting out sortition' (Janet, Kate, Mischief), 13 Jul 2024 Amended(27) by P9173 'Mid-2024 Omnibus Cleanup Act' (Mischief, Murphy, ais523, Janet, 4st), 15 Sep 2024 Annotations: CFJ 1776 (called 01 Nov 2007): A requirement to perform an action, for the purposes of this rule, can be a logical implication from rules and circumstances, not just directly imposed by the rules. In particular, it is possible to deputise to rotate the bench. CFJ 2400 (called 06 Mar 2009): Deputisation is generally treated as if the deputy gained the office immediately before the action, and lost it immediately after. CFJ 3739 (called 16 Jun 2019): To perform an action by temporary deputisation is to deputise. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rule 2689/2 (Power=3.0) Vacations & Delegation Delegate is an Office switch with possible values of "None" and any active player, and default value of "None". Delegates are tracked by the ADoP in eir weekly report. A player CAN flip the Delegate switch of a specified office to emself with Agoran Consent. If the Delegate switch of an office is set to "None", the holder of that office CAN flip the Delegate switch of that office to a specified player with support from that specified player. An officer CAN and SHOULD take a Vacation from a specified office e has continuously held for over 6 months with 7 day notice, if e has not done so in the past year. When an officer qualifies for a Vacation, the ADoP SHOULD encourage em to take one, at least once a quarter. An officer is On Vacation from a specified office if e has taken a Vacation from that office in the past 30 days. The list of officers currently on vacation is part of the ADoP's report. While the holder of an office is On Vacation, the Delegate of that office CAN perform an action ordinarily reserved for the office-holder as if e held the office, if it would be POSSIBLE for the Delegate to perform the action, other than by this method, if e held the office. Rules to the contrary notwithstanding, while an officer is On Vacation that officer NEED NOT comply with any duties of that office, and the Delegate, if any, SHALL comply with all duties of the office as if e held the office. The Delegate of an office CANNOT resign it. The Delegate of an office, if any, and the holder of that office, if any, CAN by announcement flip the Delegate of that office to "None". History: Enacted by P9072 'Vacations v4' (snail, nix, Janet, 4st, Yachay Wayllukuq, G., juan, Murphy, ais523), 18 Mar 2024 Amended(1) by P9110 'Delegate removal' (Janet), 12 May 2024 Amended(2) by P9133 'Last from the Past' (snail), 06 Jul 2024 Annotations: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rule 2691/3 (Power=2.0) Sortition Procedure A player CAN by announcement initiate a sortition for a vacant sortitioned office for which a sortition is not ongoing. At the beginning of each quarter, for each sortitioned office for which a sortition is not ongoing, the ADoP CAN once by announcement, and SHALL in a timely fashion, initiate a sortition. Rules to the contrary notwithstanding, a sortition CANNOT be initiated for an office for which a sortition is ongoing. When a sortition is initiated, it enters the lots period. Any player CAN by announcement become an option for that office during this period. If a person ceases to be a player during this period, e also ceases to be an option for each current sortition. Seven days after a sortition is initiated, its lots period ends. The ADoP CAN by announcement, and SHALL in a timely fashion after a lots period ends, randomly select one of the options for that office. When e does so, that player becomes the officeholder for that office, then the sortition ends. If a sortition's lots period has ended, and the sortition has no valid options, then it immediately ends with no selection, and any duty to select an option with respect to it is discharged. If a sortition is ever ongoing for a non-sortitioned office (or for an office that no longer exists), that sortition immediately ends. History: Enacted by P9109 'Sortition' (nix, Janet), 12 May 2024 Amended(1) by P9132 'Fashionable Manners' (Mischief, Janet), 06 Jul 2024 Amended(2) by P9136 'Sorting out sortition' (Janet, Kate, Mischief), 13 Jul 2024 Amended(3) by P9174 'Various sortition fixes v2' (Janet, Kate), 15 Sep 2024 Annotations: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rule 2138/26 (Power=1) The Associate Director of Personnel The Associate Director of Personnel (ADoP) is an office; its holder is responsible for keeping track of officers. The ADoP's report includes the following: 1. The date of the last change (if any) to each office's Officeholder. 2. The current status of the ongoing election for that office or, if there is no ongoing election for that office, the date on which the last election ended 3. For filled elected offices, whether or not the holder is interim. 4. For offices with a weekly and/or monthly report, the date (if any) that each was most recently published. History: Enacted by P4939 'Re-divide some offices' (Murphy), 29 Apr 2007 Amended(1) by P4956 'Finish re-dividing some offices' (Murphy), 07 May 2007 Amended(2) by P5237 'Comprehensive objective reporting' [disi.] (AFO), 03 Oct 2007 Amended(3) by P5367 [disi.] (Levi), 20 Dec 2007 Amended(4) by P5517 'Fix IADoP Report Requirements' [disi.] (Wooble), 28 May 2008 Amended(5) by P5718 'The IADoP is always right' (ais523), 07 Oct 2008 Assigned to the Committee on Administration by P6053 'Committees' (Murphy, woggle, ais523), 23 Jan 2009 Amended(6) by P6175 'All Offices Are Important' (Yally), 07 Apr 2009 Amended(7) by P6175 'All Offices Are Important' (Yally), 07 Apr 2009 Amended(8) by P6230 'More frequent IADoP reporting' (Wooble), 04 May 2009 Amended(9) by P6282 'IADoP Tracks Reports' (Yally), 19 May 2009 Amended(10) by P6377 'inflation' [disi.] (Alexis), 03 Jul 2009 Retitled by P6377 'inflation' [disi.] (Alexis), 03 Jul 2009 Amended(11) by P6493 'Official Acronym' [disi.] (Alexis), 18 Sep 2009 Retitled by P6667 (Murphy), 10 Mar 2010 Amended(12) by P6667 (Murphy), 10 Mar 2010 Retitled by P6975 'Kepler 5555' (Murphy), 30 Mar 2011 Amended(13) by P6975 'Kepler 5555' (Murphy), 30 Mar 2011 Amended(14) by P7465 (Walker), 17 Jun 2013 Amended(15) by P7483 'Scoping it Out' (Alexis), 09 Jul 2013 Amended(16) by P7524 'SLAjflksagksjhyroinwhyfj' (Alexis), 19 Jul 2013 Amended(17) by P7566 'because nobody cares' (Walker), 24 Aug 2013 Amended(18) by P7629 'Do Things' (Alexis), 07 Apr 2014 Amended(19) by P7663 'IADoP fix' (omd), 03 Jun 2014 Amended(20) by P7649 'I always thought these already ratified' (omd), 03 Jun 2014 Amended(21) by P7757 'IADoP Titling' (Alexis), 17 Jul 2015 Amended(22) by P7757 'IADoP Titling' (Alexis), 17 Jul 2015 Retitled by P7758 'IADoP Untitling' (omd), 19 Jul 2015 Retitled by P7758 'IADoP Untitling' (omd), 19 Jul 2015 Amended(23) by R2403, 24 May 2017 Amended(24) by P7912 'Election Campaigns' (Alexis), 15 Oct 2017 Amended(25) by P8679 'Properly Decriminalizing Lateness' (nix, G., Janet, snail, Murphy), 28 May 2022 Amended(26) by P8909 'Simplify the report report' (Murphy), 26 Feb 2023 Annotations: CFJ 1672 (called 18 May 2007): The Interstellar Associate Director of Personnel is the Director of Personnel. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rule 2472/5 (Power=2) Office Incompatibilities Some pairs of office are incompatible: 1. Prime Minister and Speaker 2. Promotor and Assessor 3. Assessor and ADoP 4. Referee and Arbitor A player is Overpowered if e holds two offices which are incompatible with each other. Rules to the contrary notwithstanding, a player CANNOT be installed into an office if doing so would make em Overpowered. If a player is Overpowered, any player CAN, with Notice, Demand Resignation from em. When this occurs, each office that the Overpowered player holds becomes vacant. History: Enacted by P7824 'Office Incompatibilities' (aranea, ais523), 07 Nov 2016 Amended(1) by R2430, 24 May 2017 Amended(2) by P7912 'Election Campaigns' (Alexis), 15 Oct 2017 Amended(3) by P8206 'Rule 2472 Simplification' (Janet), 23 Jul 2019 Amended(4) by P8394 '8228 retry' (Janet), 03 Jun 2020 Amended(5) by P8532 'Turn Undead v2' (G.), 03 Feb 2021 Annotations: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rule 2143/40 (Power=1) Reports and Duties For each person: 1. If any task is defined by the rules as part of that person's weekly duties, then e SHALL perform it at least once each week. 2. If any task is defined by the rules as part of that person's monthly duties, then e SHALL perform it at least once each month. For each office, if any information is defined by the rules as part of that office's weekly or monthly report, then its officeholder SHALL maintain all such information, and eir weekly or monthly duties respectively include publishing a document or series of documents, labelled as that office's report (or as that office's weekly or monthly report as appropriate), that includes all such information. Any information defined by the rules as part of a person's report, without specifying which one, is part of eir weekly report. Failure of a person to perform any weekly duty required of em within the allotted time is the Class 1+N infraction of Weekly Tardiness, where N is the number of times e has previously committed the infraction in the past month. Failure of a person to perform any monthly duty required of em within the allotted time is the Class 3 infraction of Monthly Tardiness. An official duty for an office is any duty that the Rules specifically assign to that office's holder in particular (regardless of eir identity). A person publishing a report SHALL do so in plain text, with tabular data lining up properly when viewed in a monospaced font. Publishing a report that deviates from these restrictions is the Class 2 infraction of Making My Eyes Bleed. A player CAN, by announcement, petition a specified person with a specified duty to take a specific action related to that duty. That person SHOULD publicly respond to that petition in a timely fashion. A player CAN petition a specified non-vacant office in the same fashion; its holder SHALL respond in the same fashion. History: Enacted by P4970 'define reports' (Zefram), 23 May 2007 Amended(1) by P5239 'Official frequencies' (AFO), 03 Oct 2007 Retitled by P5485 (root), 09 Apr 2008 Amended(2) by P5485 (root), 09 Apr 2008 Amended(3) by P5956 'random fixes part 1' (omd), 17 Nov 2008 Amended(4) by P6030 'Undo the rest of 5956x' [disi.] (Murphy), 08 Jan 2009 Assigned to the Committee on Administration by P6053 'Committees' (Murphy, woggle, ais523), 23 Jan 2009 Amended(5) by P6155 'Refactor falsity' (omd), 31 Mar 2009 Amended(6) by P6175 'All Offices Are Important' (Yally), 07 Apr 2009 Amended(7) by P6224 'wrong paragraph' (omd), 27 Apr 2009 Amended(8) by P6322 'Better Reports' (Wooble), 26 May 2009 Amended(9) by P6368 'Bleeding Eyes Aren't that Bad' (Walker), 23 Jun 2009 Amended(10) by P6428 'Office Rewards/Penalties Revision v2' (BobTHJ), 18 Aug 2009 Amended(11) by cleaning (Murphy), 06 Mar 2010 Amended(12) by P6664 'Clarify eye-hurt' [green] (Murphy), 10 Mar 2010 Amended(13) by cleaning (Murphy), 29 Jul 2010 Amended(14) by P6967 'clean up remnants' (Wooble), 20 Mar 2011 Amended(15) by P7045 'Speed' (Walker), 16 May 2011 Amended(16) by P7313 'Agora expects that every person will do eir duty' (the Warrigal), 27 Sep 2012 Amended(17) by P7451 'Fix messy statements differently' (omd), 10 Jun 2013 Amended(18) by P7544 'Public Displays' (the Warrigal), 30 Jul 2013 Amended(19) by P7563 'Clarify inaccuracy ban' (omd), 24 Aug 2013 Amended(20) by P7599 'Helpfulness' (Walker), 14 Sep 2013 Amended(21) by P7606 'Cruise Control' (G.), 13 Dec 2013 Amended(22) by P7648 'This is silly' (omd), 03 Jun 2014 Amended(23) by P7697 'Non-timed duty accuracy' (omd), 23 Oct 2014 Amended(24) by P7704 'Fixes the Oxford comma issue, too' (G.), 03 Nov 2014 Amended(25) by R2430, 24 May 2017 Amended(26) by P7865 'Regulations v4' (Aris, o, nix, ais523), 27 Jun 2017 Amended(27) by P8030 'PAoaM Patch v4' (Aris, Gaelan, Trigon, G.), 30 Mar 2018 Amended(28) by P8244 'Crime Cleanup' (Janet), 05 Sep 2019 Amended(29) by P8249 'No Harm No Foul' (Jacob Arduino, Kate), 18 Sep 2019 Amended(30) by P8296 'Divergence' (Aris, G.), 29 Jan 2020 Amended(31) by P8302 'Generic Petitions' (Aris), 29 Jan 2020 Amended(32) by P8370 'Announced Petitions' (Aris), 21 Apr 2020 Amended(33) by P8503 'Assorted Obligatory Patches' (Aris, G., nix, Janet), 25 Sep 2020 Amended(34) by P8655 'Restricted Petitions' (Janet, nix), 03 Apr 2022 Amended(35) by P8679 'Properly Decriminalizing Lateness' (nix, G., Janet, snail, Murphy), 28 May 2022 Amended(36) by P8811 'Infractions' (nix), 24 Jul 2022 Amended(37) by P8833 'Etiquette' (nix), 20 Aug 2022 Amended(38) by P9133 'Last from the Past' (snail), 06 Jul 2024 Amended(39) by P9161 'Fix office reports' (ais523), 01 Sep 2024 Retitled by P9171 'Rationalizing Recordkeepors v1.2' (Kate, Murphy, Janet, 4st), 15 Sep 2024 Amended(40) by P9171 'Rationalizing Recordkeepors v1.2' (Kate, Murphy, Janet, 4st), 15 Sep 2024 Annotations: CFJ 2392 (called 27 Feb 2009): Publishing an intentionally incomplete report does not satisfy this rule's requirement to publish a report. CFJ 3645 (called 20 Jun 2018): Including a report in a message to the public forum fulfills an officer's duty to publish said report, regardless of whether or not a disclaimer is included stating that it is not a report. CFJ 3783 (called 07 Dec 2019): It is not possible to win an election after it has ended. CFJ 3823-3824 (called 09 Mar 2020): A report must contain information accurate as of a time no earlier than one reporting period prior to its publication (e.g. one week, in the case of a weekly report). CFJ 3798 (called 24 Jan 2020): While the requirements for publishing areport are not exactly specified in the rules, they can be deduced; exact requirements are comprehensively explained in the judgment. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rule 2677/1 (Power=0.5) Etiquette Officers SHOULD: - publish dates in YYYY-MM-DD or DD Mon YY format in reports, whichever is more fitting to the situation; - communicate a schedule of when regularly timed duties will usually be done; - maintain an online version of eir report(s) in a browser-native format (such as HTML); AND - maintain a repository of eir report(s) in a public place. Players SHOULD: - signal the official name of the primary action and/or the relevant officer that tracks said actions in the title of a public message; AND - be kind. History: Enacted by P8833 'Etiquette' (nix), 20 Aug 2022 Amended(1) by cleaning (Kate), 18 Sep 2023 Annotations: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rule 2667/0 (Power=1) Succumbing to Time Once per month, a player CAN Succumb by announcement. When a player Succumbs, each of eir deadlines to perform an Officer's duty or judge a Call for Judgement is extended by 1 day if it would otherwise expire within the next week. History: Enacted by P8682 'Temptation' (snail), 18 Jun 2022 Annotations: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rule 2632/5 (Power=2.0) Complexity Complexity is a secured office switch reflecting how complex it is to fulfill the duties of its office. Its possible values are all integers from 0 to 3 inclusive, where 1 is the default. It is tracked in the ADoP's weekly report. The ADoP CAN, with 2 Agoran consent, flip the complexity of an office to a specified possible value. For each office a player holds, eir voting strength is increased by the complexity of the office for referenda on ordinary proposals, up to a maximum increase of 3 by this method. History: Enacted by P8482 'Offices are complex v2' (Trigon, ATMunn), 10 Aug 2020 Amended(1) by P8872 'Anti-Capitalists Dream of Stamp Collecting' (nix, G., Janet, Shy Owl), 11 Dec 2022 Amended(2) by P8880 'Complex, but clear' (Janet), 15 Jan 2023 Power changed from 1.0 to 2.0 by P8881 'Effective complexity' (Janet), 15 Jan 2023 Amended(3) by P8881 'Effective complexity' (Janet), 15 Jan 2023 Amended(4) by P9012 'Official security' (Janet), 31 Oct 2023 Amended(5) by cleaning (Murphy), 25 Feb 2024 Annotations: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rule 2603/2 (Power=1) Default Recordkeepors For each type of switch or asset that is not defined as untracked and that has at least one instance that would otherwise lack a recordkeepor, there exists an imposed office named "Tracker of [type name]" whose holder tracks those instances. History: Enacted by P8273 'Clean up your own mess, without making a bigger one' (Gaelan, Janet), 11 Nov 2019 Retitled by refiling (Kate), 18 Sep 2023 Amended(1) by P9171 'Rationalizing Recordkeepors v1.2' (Kate, Murphy, Janet, 4st), 15 Sep 2024 Retitled by P9202 'Track Assets' (Murphy), 26 Jan 2025 Amended(2) by P9202 'Track Assets' (Murphy), 26 Jan 2025 Annotations: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rule 2379/0 (Power=1) No News Is Some News If the rules define a report as including a list, then while that list is empty, that report includes the fact that it is empty. History: Enacted by P7286 'No News Is Some News' (FKA441344), 09 Sep 2012 Annotations: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rule 2698/0 (Power=3.0) Recordkeepors For some entity or class of entities to be "tracked by" another entity is for the latter entity to be its recordkeepor. For an entity to be a recordkeepor for a type of switch is for that entity to be the recordkeepor for all instances of that switch. Where the rules specify a recordkeepor for some set of instances of a switch, that recordkeepor's (weekly, if not specified otherwise) report includes the value of each instance in that set whose value is not its default value; a public document purporting to be this portion of that recordkeepor's report is self-ratifying, and implies that other instances in that set are at their default value. The recordkeepor of a class of assets is the entity (if any) defined as such by, and bound by, its backing document. That recordkeepor's report includes a list of all instances of that class and their owners. A public document purporting to be this portion of that recordkeepor's report is self-ratifying. History: Enacted by P9171 'Rationalizing Recordkeepors v1.2' (Kate, Murphy, Janet, 4st), 15 Sep 2024 Annotations: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rule 2616/1 (Power=1.0) The Webmastor The Webmastor is a sortitioned office. The Webmastor's monthly report includes a Directory, a Changelog, a Warning Log, and an Error Log. The Directory lists notable currently maintained public resources. The Changelog lists notable changes to resources. The Warning Log lists notable potential issues, such as inaccurate or aging resources or unintended issues with a public resource. The Error Log lists notable losses of resources - where a resource has become inaccessible, unmaintained, or unusable. Where 'notable' is used in this rule its meaning is up to the Webmastor's discretion. History: Enacted by P8388 'The Webmastor' (nix), 03 Jun 2020 Amended(1) by P9109 'Sortition' (nix, Janet), 12 May 2024 Annotations: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rule 417/10 (Power=1) The Archivist The Archivist is an office; its holder is responsible for ensuring the continued availability of documents of historical interest. The archivist’s monthly report contains: * Instructions for accessing collections of: * Texts of each historic rule revision. * Texts of each proposal. * Judicial cases. * Public messages. * Messages to discussion fora. * Theses for which a person was awarded a degree. * Optionally, any other documents the Archivist deems worthy of archival. * A description of the completeness of each of the above collections. The referenced collections NEED NOT be perfectly complete or accurate, but the Archivist SHOULD work towards improving their completeness and accuracy. History: Enacted by P417 Amended(1) by P1302, 04 Nov 1994 Amended(2) by P1700, 01 Sep 1995 Amended(3) by P1735, 15 Oct 1995 Amended(4) by P1741, 15 Oct 1995 Amended(5) by P2029, 28 Nov 1995 Infected and amended(6) by R1454, 23 Jan 1996 Amended(7) by P2662, 12 Sep 1996 Amended(8) by P2696, 10 Oct 1996 Null-amended(9) by P2710, 12 Oct 1996 Repealed by P3787, 08 Sep 1998 Re-enacted(10) at Power=1 and amended by P9080 'One from the archives' (Gaelan, Kate), 07 Apr 2024 Retitled to 'The Archivist' by P9080 'One from the archives' (Gaelan, Kate), 07 Apr 2024 Annotations: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ======================================================================== Documents Documents are little bits of text that can be ratified, therefore modifying the gamestate slightly. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rule 1551/23 (Power=3.2) Ratification A retroactive change is one that changes the game's record of past events. Retroactive changes are secured with power threshold 3. When a document or statement (hereafter "document") is to be ratified, the following definitions apply: * The publication time can be specified by the instrument allowing the ratification, defaulting to the instant at which the document to be ratified was published. * The truth time is the instant at which the document specifies that it was true, or the publication time if such an instant is not specified. * The application time is the instant at which the document to be ratified is ratified. Ratification CANNOT occur if the truth time would be after the application time, or if the publication time would be after the application time. Rules to the contrary notwithstanding, when a document is ratified, the gamestate is modified to what it would be if, at the truth time, the gamestate had been minimally modified to make the ratified document as true and accurate as possible. Ratification CANNOT occur if it would add inconsistencies between the gamestate and the rules. Ratification CANNOT occur if the required modification to the gamestate is not possible or if multiple substantially distinct possible modifications would be equally appropriate. If the minimal modification would include past or present rule changes, they are instead excluded unless the ratified document explicitly and unambiguously recites either the changes or the resulting properties of the rule(s). An internally inconsistent document generally CANNOT be ratified; however, if such a document can be divided into a summary section and a main section, where the only purpose of the summary section is to summarize information in the main section, and the main section is internally consistent, ratification of the document proceeds as if it contained only the main section. Text purportedly about previous instances of ratification (e.g. a report's date of last ratification) is excluded from ratification. The rules may define additional information that is considered to be part of the document for the purposes of ratification; such definitions are secured with power threshold 3. Ratification is secured with power threshold 3. History: Enacted by P2425, 30 Jan 1996 Infected and amended(1) by R1454, 04 Feb 1997 Amended(2) by P3445 (General Chaos), 26 Mar 1997 Amended(3) by P3704 (General Chaos), 19 Mar 1998 Amended(4) by P3889 'Minor Changes I' (harvel), 09 Aug 1999 Amended(5) by P4147 'What is Public?' (Wes), 13 May 2001 Power changed from 1 to 3 by P4832 'Condense ratification' (Maud), 06 Aug 2005 Amended(6) by P4832 'Condense ratification' (Maud), 06 Aug 2005 Amended(7) by P4868 'Red Tape Repeals 2.0' (G.), 27 Aug 2006 Amended(8) by P5101 'revise ratification' (Zefram), 01 Aug 2007 Amended(9) by P5212 'Refactor ratification' (Murphy), 08 Sep 2007 Amended(10) by P5275 'Clarify ratification' (Murphy), 07 Nov 2007 Amended(11) by P5315 'Claims of error, redux' (Murphy), 28 Nov 2007 Amended(12) by P5459 'Split and Secure Ratification' (Murphy), 09 Mar 2008 Amended(13) by P6570 'Ratification of disclaimered documents' [green] (Murphy), 28 Nov 2009 Power changed from 3 to 3.1 by P6806 'Ratification misstep' [purple] (Alexis), 27 Aug 2010 Amended(14) by P6930 'Fix ratification' (ais523), 02 Jan 2011 Amended(15) by P6938 'Decondense ratification' (omd), 02 Jan 2011 Power changed from 3.1 to 3 by SLR ratification, 02 Jan 2011 Power changed from 3 to 3.1 by P7262 'Fix' (omd), 07 Jul 2012 Amended(16) by P7568 'Agora puls a B + some ratifications' (omd, Fool), 24 Aug 2013 Amended(17) by P7586 'Self-ratification, victory, office changes' (omd), 24 Aug 2013 Amended(18) by P7664 'Fix onerous ratification requirement' (omd), 03 Jun 2014 Amended(19) by P8121 'Retroactive Documents' (D. Margaux), 12 Nov 2018 Amended(20) by P8270 'Self-ratifying statements' (omd), 11 Nov 2019 Amended(21) by cleaning (Alexis), 23 Jan 2020 Power changed from 3.1 to 3.2 by P8534 'Power Up' (Aris), 03 Feb 2021 Amended(22) by P8651 'Temporal Incursion Modification and Exclusion Act' (Janet, Aris, Oerjan), 15 Mar 2022 Amended(23) by P9184 'Ratification fix' (ais523), 11 Oct 2024 Annotations: CFJ 2165 (called 16 Sep 2008): Ratification can create legal fictions, but does not always. CFJ 3155 (called 26 Jan 2012): A "recent history" section of a report is not considered binding as a complete list of certain types of events during a certain date range. CFJ 3643 (called 18 Jun 2018): A disclaimer attached to a public document does not prevent its ratification. CFJ 3788 (called 01 Jan 2020): Ratifying that an event took place at a time before a ratified document's effective date also ratifies that all consequences of that event occurred. CFJ 3799 (called 24 Jan 2020): If a document that includes both a publication date and an as-of date is ratified, the as-of date constitutes the time the document was true for the purpose of ratification. CFJ 3769 (called 04 Aug 2019): When ratification makes a change, R1551 is the causal agent of that change. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rule 2202/10 (Power=3) Ratification Without Objection A public document is part (possibly all) of a public message. A player CAN, without objection, ratify a specified public document. Ratification Without Objection CANNOT cause the repeal, amendment, enactment, or mutation of any Rule, rules to the contrary notwithstanding. A player SHALL NOT knowingly use or announce intent to use Ratification Without Objection to ratify a (prior to ratification) document containing incorrect or Indeterminate information when a corrected document could be produced with reasonable effort, unless the general nature of the document's error and reason for ratifying it is clearly and plainly described in the announcement of intent. Such ratification or announcement of intent to ratify is the Class 8 Infraction of Endorsing Forgery. History: Enacted by P5459 'Split and Secure Ratification' (Murphy), 09 Mar 2008 Amended(1) by P6048 'the rules are special' (Wooble), 13 Jan 2009 Amended(2) by P6174 'Ratification Accuracy' (woggle), 07 Apr 2009 Amended(3) by P6340 'Permission to Ratify' (G.), 11 Jun 2009 Amended(4) by P6754 'Unanimous Consent' [purple, disi.] (Alexis), 02 Aug 2010 Amended(5) by P7451 'Fix messy statements differently' (omd), 10 Jun 2013 Amended(6) by P7680 'History Schmistory version 2' (Alexis), 12 Jul 2014 Amended(7) by P8244 'Crime Cleanup' (Janet), 05 Sep 2019 Amended(8) by P8270 'Self-ratifying statements' (omd), 11 Nov 2019 Amended(9) by P8492 'Unscoped RWO' (Janet), 30 Aug 2020 Amended(10) by P8976 'Ruleset convergance' (Janet), 25 May 2023 Annotations: CFJ 1836 (called 18 Dec 2007): Ratification of an official document affects only those aspects of gamestate that are defined to be part of the official report, and not aspects that are incidentally reported on; in particular, ratification of an official report on certain parameters pertaining to each player does not ratify the list of players. CFJ 2289 (called 25 Nov 2008): Ratification Without Objection of a value inseparable from another value may change the latter value even if it is not directly part of the report being ratified. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rule 2201/13 (Power=3) Self-Ratification When a public document published less than 180 days ago is first continuously undoubted for one week after publication: - If the rules define it as self-ratifying, it is ratified. - If the rules define it as a self-ratifying attestation to a given statement, the statement is ratified, with the publication time being the instant at which the document was published. This clause is inapplicable if the statement to be ratified cannot be reasonably ascertained from the ruleset and the contents of the message. Any person CAN by announcement issue a doubt (syn. claim of error), identifying a public document published less than 180 days ago and explaining the scope and nature of a perceived error in it (or in a statement it attests to). The definition of documents as self-ratifying and the definition of documents as self-ratifying attestations are secured at power 3. When this happens, the publisher of the original document SHALL (if e was required to publish that document) or SHOULD (otherwise) do one of the following in a timely fashion, in an announcement that clearly cites the claim of error: 1. Deny the claim (causing it to cease to be a doubt). 2. Publish a revision. 3. Initiate an inquiry case regarding the truth of the claim (if the subject is actually a matter of law), or cite a relevant existing inquiry case. The issuance of a doubt on a documents, the denial of a claim of error, and the ceasing of a doubt on a document to be a doubt are secured at power 3. History: Enacted by P5459 'Split and Secure Ratification' (Murphy), 09 Mar 2008 Amended(1) by P6106 'Fix Rule 2201' (Murphy, ais523), 22 Feb 2009 Amended(2) by P6243 'Refactor accepted CoEs' (Murphy), 09 May 2009 Amended(3) by P6622 'Take a third option' [green] (Murphy), 20 Feb 2010 Amended(4) by P6744 (Murphy), 01 Jul 2010 Amended(5) by P6922 'Take a fourth option' [disi.] (Murphy), 02 Jan 2011 Amended(6) by P7420 'We don't need to be that idiosyncratic un-derp version' (omd), 27 May 2013 Amended(7) by R2430, 24 May 2017 Amended(8) by P8188 'Blanket Denial' (G.), 23 Jul 2019 Amended(9) by P8270 'Self-ratifying statements' (omd), 11 Nov 2019 Amended(10) by P8292 'Self-Ratification Simplification Act' (Bernie, Kate), 29 Jan 2020 Amended(11) by P9050 'Self-ratification limitations' (Janet), 28 Jan 2024 Amended(12) by P9050 'Self-ratification limitations' (Janet), 28 Jan 2024 Amended(13) by P9184 'Ratification fix' (ais523), 11 Oct 2024 Annotations: CFJ 1690 (called 19 Jun 2007): A challenge to a self-ratifying document {at the time of CFJ 1690, the resolution of an Agoran decision} must explicitly identify the document, either individually or as part of a set, and explicitly contest the accuracy of some aspect of it. CFJ 1790-1791 (called 11 Nov 2007): A challenge to any part of a self-ratifying document prevents ratification of all parts of it. CFJ 3658 (called 27 Aug 2018): The scope of a claim of error is the self-ratifying section of the report that contains the error. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ======================================================================== Justice So you've broken a rule. Now what? This section describes Blots, the main method of punishment for Agorans. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rule 2555/16 (Power=2) Blots Blots are an indestructible fixed fungible asset with ownership restricted to persons. A person with 1 or more blots is Impure, a person with 0 blots is Pure. An impure unregistered person is a Fugitive. The Referee is an office, and the recordkeepor for blots. To expunge a blot is to destroy it. Creating and destroying blots is secured with a Power Threshold of 1.7 A person CAN, by announcement, create a specified number of blots in eir possession. Any player CAN pay a fee of 7 Spendies to revoke a blot from a specified person. Once a quarter, the Referee CAN (and SHALL during its first Eastman week) publish a Notice of Clemency, upon which half (rounded down) of each fugitive's blots are destroyed. History: Enacted by P8029 'Blots v1.0' (G., Aris), 30 Mar 2018 Amended(1) by P8066 'Separation of church and state' (Kate, Trigon), 26 Jul 2018 Amended(2) by P8126 'High-level asset verbs' (Trigon), 19 Nov 2018 Amended(3) by P8217 'penance as a service' (G.), 05 Sep 2019 Amended(4) by P8235 'Unified fine creation syntax' (Janet), 18 Sep 2019 Amended(5) by cleaning (Alexis), 23 Jan 2020 Amended(6) by P8345 'Self-punishment' (Janet), 10 Mar 2020 Amended(7) by P8350 'Apologies Don't Interfere' (Alexis), 21 Mar 2020 Amended(8) by P8408 'Sets v1.4' (nix, Trigon, Falsifian, Publius Scribonius Scholasticus, Janet, Aris, G., ais523), 12 Jun 2020 Amended(9) by P8427 'Slap on the wrist' (R. Lee), 14 Jun 2020 Amended(10) by P8811 'Infractions' (nix), 24 Jul 2022 Amended(11) by P8852 'Fix Infractions' (4st, Janet), 11 Sep 2022 Amended(12) by P8935 'Quicker Peer Expungement' (nix, Aris, G.), 02 Apr 2023 Amended(13) by P9076 'FUNgibility' (nix), 07 Apr 2024 Amended(14) by P9092 'Paying your time' (ais523), 21 Apr 2024 Amended(15) by P9092 'Paying your time' (ais523), 21 Apr 2024 Amended(16) by P9154 'Pragmatic quarters, take two' (Murphy, Mischief), 18 Aug 2024 Annotations: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rule 2556/1 (Power=3) Penalties Rules to the contrary notwithstanding, an impure person CANNOT win the game. The voting strength of a player on an Agoran decision is reduced by 1 for every 3 blots in eir possession. A player CAN, with 7 days notice, deregister (exile) a specified player (the outlaw) who has more than 40 blots. History: Enacted by P8029 'Blots v1.0' (G., Aris), 30 Mar 2018 Amended(1) by cleaning (Alexis), 23 Jan 2020 Annotations: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rule 2478/29 (Power=1.7) Justice An Infraction is a violation of a rule. The person who committed an infraction is its infracter. The Investigator for an infraction is the Referee unless e is the infracter. Otherwise, it is the Arbitor. The Class of an infraction is 2 unless a rule specifies a different Class for it. The Base of an infraction is N, where N is the number of previously-investigated, unforgiven infractions that have been committed by the same person in the past 30 days. The previous notwithstanding, if the base of an infraction would be greater than its class, the infraction's base is equal to its class. Within 14 days of an infraction being committed, or if the infraction has been noted in the past 60 days, the Investigator CAN investigate the infraction by announcement, specifying a number of blots between the Base and the Class of the infraction, inclusive. When e does so, that many blots are created in the possession of the infracter. The previous notwithstanding, an Investigator CANNOT investigate an infraction that has already been investigated or forgiven. The Investigator of a noted, unforgiven infraction SHALL investigate the infraction in a timely fashion after it has been noted; failure to do so is the Class N infraction of Favoritism, where N is equal to the Class of the noted infraction. A player CAN, by announcement, "note" an unforgiven infraction committed by any other player in the past 14 days, specifying the incident and the rule it violates (or name of the Infraction if it has one); but a player CANNOT note an infraction that has already been investigated. The Referee's weekly report contains a list of noted and investigated Infractions committed in the previous week. History: Enacted by P7831 'Vigilante Justice' (Alexis), 05 Dec 2016 Amended(1) by R2430, 24 May 2017 Amended(2) by P7886 'Card Reform and Expansion v4' (Aris, ais523, Ørjan), 26 Sep 2017 Amended(3) by P7964 'Referee Reform and Card Appealability' (R. Lee), 07 Nov 2017 Amended(4) by P7964 'Referee Reform and Card Appealability' (R. Lee), 07 Nov 2017 Amended(5) by P7964 'Referee Reform and Card Appealability' (R. Lee), 07 Nov 2017 Amended(6) by P7982 'Referee Reform Fix' (R. Lee), 03 Dec 2017 Amended(7) by P8029 'Blots v1.0' (G., Aris), 30 Mar 2018 Amended(8) by P8090 'Shenanigans For INEFFECTIVE Fines (v2)' (D. Margaux), 17 Sep 2018 Amended(9) by P8181 'Referee CAN Impose Fines (v1.1)' (D. Margaux, Falsifian, Kate), 22 Jun 2019 Amended(10) by P8250 'Finger bending' (Murphy, Kate), 04 Oct 2019 Amended(11) by P8368 'Explicit Accusations' (G.), 21 Apr 2020 Amended(12) by P8404 'High Crimes and Treason' (Publius Scribonius Scholasticus, G., Janet, Murphy), 03 Jun 2020 Amended(13) by P8404 'High Crimes and Treason' (Publius Scribonius Scholasticus, G., Janet, Murphy), 03 Jun 2020 Amended(14) by P8479 'Competitive Finger Pointing v2' (nix, Aris, Publius Scribonius Scholasticus, ATMunn), 10 Aug 2020 Amended(15) by P8527 'Specified Crime not Rule' (Publius Scribonius Scholasticus, nix, Aris), 13 Jan 2021 Amended(16) by P8536 'Justice for All' (Aris, G., Janet), 03 Feb 2021 Amended(17) by P8610 'No Immediate Shenanigans' (Janet), 18 Oct 2021 Amended(18) by P8643 'Firing Judge Dredd' (G.), 23 Feb 2022 Amended(19) by P8654 'Cheaters shouldn't prosper' (G.), 15 Mar 2022 Amended(20) by P8660 'The End of Sets' (nix, G., Janet, snail), 03 Apr 2022 Amended(21) by P8671 'No finger pointing on behalf' (Janet), 08 May 2022 Amended(22) by R2658, 09 Jun 2022 Amended(23) by P8811 'Infractions' (nix), 24 Jul 2022 Retitled by P8830 'Justice & Forgiveness 2.1' (nix, Janet, G., Murphy, snail), 20 Aug 2022 Amended(24) by P8830 'Justice & Forgiveness 2.1' (nix, Janet, G., Murphy, snail), 20 Aug 2022 Amended(25) by P9028 'Fairness in Crime Act' (Janet), 26 Nov 2023 Amended(26) by P9082 'yes, yes, I got the memo' (Gaelan), 07 Apr 2024 Amended(27) by P9112 'What's a crime?' (Murphy), 26 May 2024 Amended(28) by P9132 'Fashionable Manners' (Mischief, Janet), 06 Jul 2024 Amended(29) by P9133 'Last from the Past' (snail), 06 Jul 2024 Annotations: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rule 2676/2 (Power=1.7) Forgiveness All infractions that have not been forgiven are unforgiven. Any player CAN, with Agoran Consent, "forgive" an unforgiven infraction that occurred in the past 30 days. When an infraction is forgiven, if the infraction was investigated, a number of blots in the possession of the infracter equal to the number of blots specified by the investigation are destroyed or, if e has less blots than specified, all eir blots are destroyed. The previous notwithstanding, a player cannot forgive or support an intent to forgive eir own infraction. History: Enacted by P8830 'Justice & Forgiveness 2.1' (nix, Janet, G., Murphy, snail), 20 Aug 2022 Amended(1) by cleaning (Kate), 18 Sep 2023 Amended(2) by P9133 'Last from the Past' (snail), 06 Jul 2024 Annotations: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rule 2531/18 (Power=2) Defendant's Rights An infraction is automatically forgiven if: (1) the alleged infracter can't be established by a preponderance of the evidence to have committed the infraction; (2) at the time the alleged infraction occurred, it was not an infraction; (3) the infraction was for failure to take an action that the infracter, through no fault of eir own, COULD NOT have performed; (4) the infraction is for conduct that the infracter, through no fault of eir own, was obliged to undertake by a rule of equal or greater power to the one e violated; (5) the infracter could not have avoided the infraction when exercising the highest reasonably possible standard of care; or (6) any available non-null punishment would be blatantly and obviously unsuited to the conduct which constitutes the infraction or to the person who committed the infraction. Rules to the contrary notwithstanding, any attempt to investigate an infraction which would result in the creation of blots is INEFFECTIVE if: (1) it does not include the specific reason for the fine; or (2) it would result in a punishment that is blatantly and obviously unsuited to the conduct which constitutes the infraction or to the person who committed the infraction. History: Enacted by P7964 'Referee Reform and Card Appealability' (R. Lee), 06 Nov 2017 Amended(1) by P8029 'Blots v1.0' (G., Aris), 30 Mar 2018 Power changed from 1 to 2 by P8029 'Blots v1.0' (G., Aris), 30 Mar 2018 Amended(2) by P8051 'Zombie Overhaul v1.0' (G., Aris), 14 Jun 2018 Amended(3) by P8119 'Criminal Justice Adjustments Act' (G.), 12 Nov 2018 Amended(4) by P8130 'Law is Ambiguous Word Act' (Gaelan), 19 Nov 2018 Amended(5) by P8203 'Fixing Summary Judgement' (Janet), 23 Jul 2019 Amended(6) by P8222 'Fixing Summary Judgement (v2)' (Janet), 05 Sep 2019 Amended(7) by cleaning (Janet), 17 Oct 2019 Retitled by P8377 'Burden + Accurate Naming' (R. Lee), 22 May 2020 Amended(8) by P8377 'Burden + Accurate Naming' (R. Lee), 22 May 2020 Amended(9) by P8389 'Just Impeach Instead' (G.), 03 Jun 2020 Amended(10) by P8392 'Prior Violations' (Janet), 03 Jun 2020 Amended(11) by P8425 'Impossiblity Defense' (Aris), 14 Jun 2020 Amended(12) by P8426 'Impracticability Defense' (Aris), 14 Jun 2020 Amended(13) by P8522 'Theftn't' (ATMunn, Janet), 11 Nov 2020 Amended(14) by P8532 'Turn Undead v2' (G.), 03 Feb 2021 Amended(15) by cleaning (surprise), 26 Jun 2021 Repealed by P8811 'Infractions' (nix), 24 Jul 2022 Re-enacted(16) at Power=2 and amended by P8830 'Justice & Forgiveness 2.1' (nix, Janet, G., Murphy, snail), 20 Aug 2022 Amended(17) by cleaning (Kate), 18 Sep 2023 Amended(18) by P9028 'Fairness in Crime Act' (Janet), 26 Nov 2023 Annotations: CFJ 2531 (called 11 Apr 2020): A fine is "blatantly and obviously unsuited to the conduct which constitutes the reason for its levy" if it clearly contravenes the sentencing guidelines contained in the rules. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ======================================================================== Calls for Judgement What if there is a rule conflict? What if we can't decide what a rule means? Well then, it's time to call a CFJ. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rule 991/35 (Power=2) Calls for Judgement Any person (the initiator) can initiate a Call for Judgement (CFJ, syn. Judicial Case), specifying a statement to be inquired into by announcement. A case so initiated is an inquiry case. When a person initiates a Call for Judgement, e CAN optionally bar one person from the case by announcement. At any time, each CFJ is either open (default), suspended, or assigned exactly one judgement that was validly assigned. The Arbitor is an office, responsible for the administration of justice in a manner that is fair for emself, if not for the rest of Agora. Judge is an untracked CFJ switch with possible values of any person or former person, or "unassigned" (default). To "assign" a CFJ to a person is to flip that CFJ's judge to that person. To "remove" or "recuse" a person from a being the judge of a CFJ is to flip that CFJ's judge from that person to unassigned. When an open CFJ's judge is unassigned, the Arbitor CAN assign any eligible player to be its judge by announcement, and SHALL do so in a timely fashion after it becomes an open and unassigned CFJ. The players eligible to be assigned as judge are all active players except the initiator and the person barred (if any). The Arbitor SHALL assign judges over time such that all interested players have reasonably equal opportunities to judge. If a CFJ has no judge assigned, then any player eligible to judge that CFJ CAN assign it to emself without 3 objections. The Arbitor's weekly report includes a summary of recent judicial case activity, including open and recently-judged cases, recent judicial assignments, and a list of players interested in judging. If two CFJs become assigned to the same judge in the same message, those CFJs are "linked" to each other, unless that message specifies that the CFJs should not be linked. The Arbitor SHOULD consider linking two CFJs if they inquire about the same or substantially similar events and are called at approximately the same time. History: Initial mutable rule 213, Agora's birth Amended(1) by P407 (Alexx), 03 Sep 1993 Amended by P991 'Ultimate Reward for Achievement of Goal' (Fnord.), around 12 Aug 1994 Amended(2) by R750, around 12 Aug 1994 Infected and amended(3) by R1454, 23 Oct 1995 Amended(4) by P2042, 11 Dec 1995 Amended(5) by P2457, 16 Feb 1996 Mutated from MI=1 to MI=2 by P2669, 19 Sep 1996 Amended(6) by P4170 'Justiciar Opinon' (Mischief), 26 Jun 2001 Amended(7) by P4298 'Massive Judicial Reform' (Murphy), 17 May 2002 Amended(8) by P4867 'Judicial Reform 2.0' (G.), 27 Aug 2006 Amended(9) by P5015 'CFJ by announcement' (Zefram), 24 Jun 2007 Retitled by P5086 'judicial reform' (Zefram), 01 Aug 2007 Amended(10) by P5086 'judicial reform' (Zefram), 01 Aug 2007 Amended(11) by P5110 'Regulate ID numbers' (Murphy), 02 Aug 2007 Amended(12) by P5317 'Judicial fixes' (Murphy), 28 Nov 2007 Amended(13) by P5464 'Secure more judicial aspects' (Murphy), 13 Mar 2008 Assigned to the Committee on the Judiciary by P6053 'Committees' (Murphy, woggle, ais523), 23 Jan 2009 Amended(14) by P7050 'No more warp drive' (omd), 16 May 2011 Retitled to 'Calls for Judgement' by P7616 'Mostly Simple Judging v2.3' (G.), 16 Jan 2014 Amended(15) by P7616 'Mostly Simple Judging v2.3' (G.), 16 Jan 2014 Amended(16) by P7629 'Do Things' (Alexis), 07 Apr 2014 Amended(17) by P7647 'formatting/misc fixes' (omd), 03 Jun 2014 Amended(18) by P7777 'Simplified moot fix' (omd), 14 Aug 2015 Amended(19) by P7803 'Self-service judiciary' (G.), 31 Jul 2016 Amended(20) by P7867 'Economics Overhaul v2' (nix, o, grok, Aris), 30 Jul 2017 Amended(21) by P7876 'Float On' (o), 26 Sep 2017 Amended(22) by P7888 'BILLY MAYS HERE' (o, R. Lee), 26 Sep 2017 Amended(23) by P7899 'Arbitor's Union' (G.), 03 Oct 2017 Amended(24) by P8004 'Rusty' (G.), 30 Jan 2018 Amended(25) by P8005 'Hopefully routine fixes' (Murphy), 06 Feb 2018 Amended(26) by P8014 'Putting Agora on a Map v7' (Trigon, Aris, ATMunn, G., o, R. Lee), 24 Feb 2018 Amended(27) by P8017 'RTRW Cleanups' (Alexis), 06 Mar 2018 Amended(28) by P8065 'No undead courts' (Kate), 18 Jul 2018 Amended(29) by cleaning (Trigon), 31 Oct 2018 Amended(30) by P8134 'The judge switch' (G.), 02 Dec 2018 Amended(31) by P8221 'Usage de-capitalization' (Janet, Aris), 05 Sep 2019 Amended(32) by P8454 'Judicial non-person fixes' (G., Janet, Publius Scribonious Scholasticus), 30 Jun 2020 Amended(33) by P8455 'old judgements are good judgements' (G., Janet, Publius Scribonius Scholasticus), 30 Jun 2020 Amended(34) by P9147 'Paradox cleanup fix' (ais523), 05 Aug 2024 Amended(35) by P9203 'A clarification' (Janet, ais523), 26 Jan 2025 Annotations: CFJ 1692-1693 (called 20 Jun 2007): A CFJ can be unambiguously referenced by using the customarily-assigned sequence numbers, even if the number was not assigned in the public forum, provided that those involved accept it as unambiguous at the time. CFJ 1355 (called 28 Apr 2002): Titles for CFJs are unregulated, so it is possible for a title to be assigned to a CFJ informally. CFJ 3623 (called 09 Feb 2018): CFJing on a future hypothetical without specifying relevant assumptions is indeterminate. CFJ 3805 (called 31 Jan 2020): Maintaining CFJ archives is hard. CFJ 3876 (called 30 Jul 2020): Interest in judging is not regulated, and can be determined in accordance with common sense. CFJ 3488 (called 16 May 2017): A non-player can be a judge and deliver judgements, and may in some circumstances be REQUIRED to do so. CFJ 3822 (called 19 Mar 2020): Judges of ancient cases are still judges, unless they were explicitly recused. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rule 591/51 (Power=1.7) Delivering Judgements When a CFJ is open and assigned to a judge, that judge CAN assign a valid judgement to it by announcement, and SHALL do so in an officially timely fashion after this becomes possible. The valid judgements for an inquiry case are as follows, based on the facts and legal situation at the time the inquiry case was initiated, not taking into account any events since that time: * FALSE, appropriate if the statement was factually and logically false. * TRUE, appropriate if the statement was factually and logically true. * IRRELEVANT, appropriate if the veracity of the statement is not relevant to the game or is an overly hypothetical extrapolation of the game or its rules to conditions that don't actually exist, or if it can be trivially determined from the outcome of another (possibly still undecided) judicial case that was not itself judged IRRELEVANT. * INSUFFICIENT, appropriate if the statement does not come with supporting arguments or evidence, and the judge feels as if an undue burden is being placed on em by the lack of arguments and evidence. A CFJ judged as INSUFFICIENT SHOULD be submitted again with sufficient arguments/evidence. * DISMISS, appropriate if the statement is malformed, undecidable, if insufficient information exists to make a judgement with reasonable effort, or the statement is otherwise not able to be answered with another valid judgement. DISMISS is not appropriate if PARADOXICAL is appropriate. * PARADOXICAL, appropriate if the statement is logically undecidable as a result of a paradox or or other irresolvable logical situation. PARADOXICAL is not appropriate if IRRELEVANT is appropriate, nor is it appropriate if the undecidability arises from the case itself or in reference to it. If the judge of an open CFJ has not violated a time limit for assigning it a judgement, and has not previously filed a motion to either extend or reconsider the case, e CAN file a motion to extend the case by announcement. Doing so extends eir judgement deadline for that case by one week. In doing so, e SHOULD include a (nonbinding) draft or outline of eir current thoughts on the case. History: Initial mutable rule 216, Agora's birth Amended by P409 (Alexx), 26 Aug 1993 Amended by P591 (KoJen), 21 Oct 1993 Amended(1) by P1320, 21 Nov 1994 Amended(2) by P1487, 15 Mar 1995 Amended(3) by P2457, 16 Feb 1996 Amended(4) by P2662, 12 Sep 1996 Amended(5) by P2710, 12 Oct 1996 Infected and amended(6) by R1454, 27 Nov 1996 Amended(7) by P3452 (Steve), 07 Apr 1997 Amended(8) by P3463 (Harlequin), 17 Apr 1997 Infected and amended(9) by R1454, 07 May 1997 Amended(10) by R591, 21 May 1997 Amended(11) by P3629 'Persistent Judges' (General Chaos), 29 Dec 1997 Amended(12) by P3645 'Late Judgements' (elJefe), 29 Dec 1997 Amended(13) by P3889 'Minor Changes I' (harvel), 09 Aug 1999 Amended(14) by P3897 'A Separation of Money but not of Powers' (harvel), 27 Aug 1999 Amended(15) by P3968 'Cleanup with Quantifier Changes' (harvel), 04 Feb 2000 Amended(16) by P3998 'Compensations' (harvel), 02 May 2000 Amended(17) by P4147 'What is Public?' (Wes), 13 May 2001 Amended(18) by P4298 'Massive Judicial Reform' (Murphy), 17 May 2002 Amended(19) by P5068 'public judicial process' (Zefram), 11 Jul 2007 Retitled by P5068 'public judicial process' (Zefram), 11 Jul 2007 Power changed from 1 to 1.7 by P5068 'public judicial process' (Zefram), 11 Jul 2007 Amended(20) by P5086 'judicial reform' (Zefram), 01 Aug 2007 Amended(21) by P5296 'Decidable Undetermination' (root), 28 Nov 2007 Amended(22) by P5360 'Clarify judicial precedent' (Murphy), 20 Dec 2007 Amended(23) by P5371 'first-class CFJs' (Zefram), 20 Dec 2007 Amended(24) by P5425 'A different sort of judicial question' (Murphy), 06 Feb 2008 Amended(25) by P5470 'Ask a yes-or-no question, get a yes-or-no answer' (Murphy), 24 Mar 2008 Amended(26) by P5476 'Spelling/grammar check' [disi.] (Murphy), 27 Mar 2008 Amended(27) by P5964 'Pragmatise malformed inquiries' (Murphy), 18 Nov 2008 Amended(28) by P6002 'Refactor judicial timing' (Murphy), 07 Dec 2008 Amended(29) by P6024 'Cleanup of judicial definitions' (Murphy), 22 Dec 2008 Amended(30) by P6044 'Hypothetically Irrelevant' (G.), 13 Jan 2009 Assigned to the Committee on the Judiciary by P6053 'Committees' (Murphy, woggle, ais523), 23 Jan 2009 Amended(31) by P6571 'This gets on my nerves' [green] (ais523), 28 Nov 2009 Amended(32) by P6931 'Duplicate cases are IRRELEVANT' (omd), 02 Jan 2011 Amended(33) by P7022 'Not worth the paper it's printed on' (Walker, Murphy, omd), 05 May 2011 Amended(34) by P7050 'No more warp drive' (omd), 16 May 2011 Amended(35) by P7078 '7050 fixes' (omd), 16 Jun 2011 Amended(36) by P7266 'make MALFORMED meaningful' (omd), 25 Jul 2012 Amended(37) by P7293 'Splitting hairs' (Murphy), 09 Sep 2012 Amended(38) by P7610 'Low-hanging Fruit' (G.), 22 Dec 2013 Retitled to 'Delivering Judgements' by P7616 'Mostly Simple Judging v2.3' (G.), 16 Jan 2014 Amended(39) by P7616 'Mostly Simple Judging v2.3' (G.), 16 Jan 2014 Amended(40) by P7629 'Do Things' (Alexis), 07 Apr 2014 Amended(41) by P7694 'Case at the statement' (omd), 23 Oct 2014 Amended(42) by P7776 'Clarify judgement wording' (omd), 14 Aug 2015 Amended(43) by P7859 'Gentle Judicial Updates' (Quazie, grok), 27 Jun 2017 Amended(44) by P7899 'Arbitor's Union' (G.), 03 Oct 2017 Amended(45) by P7976 'A Mostest Ingenious Paradox' (Alexis, ais523), 26 Nov 2017 Amended(46) by P8215 'recusal simplification' (G.), 05 Sep 2019 Amended(47) by P8450 'CFJ extensions' (G.), 30 Jun 2020 Amended(48) by P8545 'Uncanny Fixes' (Aris, Murphy), 10 Mar 2021 Amended(49) by cleaning (G.), 17 Jun 2021 Amended(50) by cleaning (4st), 04 Jun 2023 Amended(51) by P9215 'Predictable Judicial Timelines' (Kate), 16 Mar 2025 Annotations: CFJ 1835 (called 18 Dec 2007): A question cannot generally take the place of a statement in initiating an inquiry case. CFJ 1903 (called 06 Feb 2008): The question-statement equivalence established by this rule applies only for the purposes of the subject of an inquiry case, not for acting by announcement. CFJ 1671 (called 17 May 2007): The truth or falsity of a statement can be determined as of the initiation of a CFJ even if public knowledge at the time of initiation was not sufficient to determine it. CFJ 1482 (called 10 Feb 2004): If the truth of a CFJ statement logically depends on the truth of statements of a previously-called CFJ which has not yet been judged, the judge is entitled to treat this as a situation of insufficient information being available. CFJ 1744 (called 18 Sep 2007): It is not the job of the judge to hunt down or request the information that would be required to render a substantive judgement. CFJ 1771 (called 28 Oct 2007): If an inquiry case revolves around the interpretation of a specific message, and the initiator does not provide a reasonable reference to that message , the judge is entitled to treat this as a situation of insufficient information being available. CFJ 1732 (called 23 Aug 2007): If a particular player holds a particular office, and an inquiry case on a statement that that player holds that office is judged FALSE, that player still holds that office. CFJ 2281 (called 19 Nov 2008): For the purposes of determining the validity of an inquiry case, the term "statement" should be interpreted loosely. CFJ 3837 (called 24 May 2020): A statement formed from the logical combination of a proposition that has no bearing on the game and one that does is IRRELEVANT. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rule 911/56 (Power=1.7) Motions and Moots The judge of a CFJ CAN by announcement self-file a Motion to Reconsider it, if its most recent judgement has been in effect for less than seven days. Any player CAN with 2 support group-file a Motion to Reconsider a case, if its most recent judgement had been in effect for less than seven days at the time the intent was tabled. The above notwithstanding, it is IMPOSSIBLE to file a Motion to Reconsider a CFJ whose current judgement has been entered into Moot, or that has already had a Motion to Reconsider filed against it by the same method since it was most recently assigned to a judge. When a Motion to Reconsider a case is filed, the case is rendered open again. If a CFJ has a judgement assigned, a player CAN enter that judgement into Moot with N+2 support, where N is the number of weeks from the time the judgement was assigned to the time the intent was tabled, rounded down. When this occurs, the CFJ is suspended, and the Arbitor is once authorized to initiate the Agoran decision to determine public confidence in the judgement, which e SHALL do in a timely fashion. For this decision, the vote collector is the Arbitor and the valid options are AFFIRM, REMAND, and REMIT. When the decision is resolved, the effect depends on the outcome: - AFFIRM, FAILED QUORUM: The judgement is reassigned to the case, and cannot be entered into Moot again. - REMAND: The case becomes open again. - REMIT: The case becomes open again, and the current judge is recused. The Arbitor SHALL NOT assign em to the case again unless no other eligible judges have displayed interest in judging. History: Enacted by P384 (Alexx), 16 Aug 1993 Amended by P690 (Ronald Kunne), 11 Nov 1993 Amended by P911 'Appealing Judgement' (Garth), 04 May 1994 Amended(1) by R750, 04 May 1994 Amended(2) by P1345, 29 Nov 1994 Amended(3) by P1487, 15 Mar 1995 Amended(4) by P1511, 24 Mar 1995 Amended(5) by P2457, 16 Feb 1996 Amended(6) by P2553, 22 Mar 1996 Amended(7) by P2685, 03 Oct 1996 Amended(8) by P3532 (General Chaos), 15 Jul 1997 Amended(9) by P3559 'Clarify Judge Eligibility' (Murphy), 24 Oct 1997 Amended(10) by P4213 'Make the CotC's Life Easier' (Taral), 29 Sep 2001 Amended(11) by P4278 'Cold Storage' (harvel), 03 Apr 2002 Amended(12) by P4298 'Massive Judicial Reform' (Murphy), 17 May 2002 Amended(13) by P4579 'Judicial Tweaks' (Murphy), 15 Jun 2004 Amended(14) by P4825 'Omnibus Spelling Fix' (Maud), 17 Jul 2005 Amended(15) by P4867 'Judicial Reform 2.0' (G.), 27 Aug 2006 Amended(16) by P5051 'discretionary appeal board assignment' (Zefram), 05 Jul 2007 Retitled by P5086 'judicial reform' (Zefram), 01 Aug 2007 Power changed from 1 to 1.7 by P5086 'judicial reform' (Zefram), 01 Aug 2007 Amended(17) by P5086 'judicial reform' (Zefram), 01 Aug 2007 Amended(18) by P5359 'Concurring opinions' (Murphy), 20 Dec 2007 Amended(19) by P5361 'Dissent!' (Murphy), 20 Dec 2007 Amended(20) by P5436 'Refactor appeals' (Murphy), 13 Feb 2008 Amended(21) by P5466 'Group cause with effect' (Murphy), 13 Mar 2008 Amended(22) by P5610 'No judicial gravy' (Murphy), 29 Jul 2008 Amended(23) by P5726 'Opinion in both directions' (Murphy), 07 Oct 2008 Amended(24) by P6002 'Refactor judicial timing' (Murphy), 07 Dec 2008 Amended(25) by P6014 'Re-streamline Appeals' (G.), 18 Dec 2008 Amended(26) by P6024 'Cleanup of judicial definitions' (Murphy), 22 Dec 2008 Assigned to the Committee on the Judiciary by P6053 'Committees' (Murphy, woggle, ais523), 23 Jan 2009 Amended(27) by P6211 'Refactor appeals opinions' (omd), 27 Apr 2009 Amended(28) by P6229 'Broader review complex cases' (Murphy), 04 May 2009 Amended(29) by P6327 'Does a public message have the nature?' (Murphy), 29 May 2009 Amended(30) by P6334 'Two tiered tiebreaker' (G., ais523), 29 May 2009 Amended(31) by P6334 'Two tiered tiebreaker' (G., ais523), 29 May 2009 Amended(32) by P6376 'Oh no, not again!' (Murphy), 23 Jun 2009 Amended(33) by P6510 'Judicial fixes' (Murphy), 03 Oct 2009 Amended(34) by P6542 'High-rank appeals prefer high-rank panels' [green] (Murphy), 07 Nov 2009 Amended(35) by P6571 'This gets on my nerves' [green] (ais523), 28 Nov 2009 Amended(36) by P6571 'This gets on my nerves' [green] (ais523), 28 Nov 2009 Amended(37) by P6605 'Revised concurring opinions' [green] (Murphy), 19 Jan 2010 Amended(38) by cleaning (Murphy), 06 Mar 2010 Amended(39) by P6705 'Prejudice' [purple] (omd), 25 Apr 2010 Amended(40) by P6726 'Reassign the name' [purple] (Alexis), 22 May 2010 Amended(41) by P6811 'Stereotypes' [green] (Murphy), 04 Sep 2010 Amended(42) by P6969 'Broken arrows' (Murphy), 20 Mar 2011 Amended(43) by P7038 'Judicial Panel Reform' (Alexis), 16 May 2011 Amended(44) by P7042 'What's a rank?' [disi.] (Murphy), 16 May 2011 Amended(45) by P7049 'No frivolous appeals' (omd), 16 May 2011 Amended(46) by P7050 'No more warp drive' (omd), 16 May 2011 Amended(47) by P7072 'Judicial Rank is Dead' (woggle), 16 Jun 2011 Amended(48) by P7078 '7050 fixes' (omd), 16 Jun 2011 Amended(49) by P7152 'Agora in the winter' (Murphy), 25 Jan 2012 Retitled to 'Motions and Moots' by P7616 'Mostly Simple Judging v2.3' (G.), 16 Jan 2014 Amended(50) by P7616 'Mostly Simple Judging v2.3' (G.), 16 Jan 2014 Amended(51) by P7629 'Do Things' (Alexis), 07 Apr 2014 Amended(52) by P7647 'formatting/misc fixes' (omd), 03 Jun 2014 Amended(53) by P7777 'Simplified moot fix' (omd), 14 Aug 2015 Amended(54) by P7930 'Appeals improvements' (G.), 29 Oct 2017 Amended(55) by P8221 'Usage de-capitalization' (Janet, Aris), 05 Sep 2019 Amended(56) by P9211 'De-Convoluting Mooting v1.1' (Kate, Mischief), 17 Feb 2025 Annotations: CFJ 1597 (called 22 Dec 2006): It is possible to appeal a judgement even if it is not certain that the judgement exists. CFJ 1800 (called 18 Nov 2007): An announcement of the form "I call for the appeal of " has the effect of initiating the Agoran decision on whether to approve appealing the cited judgement. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rule 2175/9 (Power=1) Judicial Retraction and Excess A new case is a judicial case that has not had any judge assigned to it. The initiator of a new case CAN retract it by announcement, thus causing it to cease to be a judicial case. An excess case is a new case whose initiator previously initiated five or more cases during the same week as that case. A person SHALL NOT initiate an excess case. The Arbitor CAN refuse an excess case by announcement, thus causing it to cease to be a judicial case. When e does so, e fulfills any obligations with regards to that case. History: Enacted by P5284 'Reinstate Excess CFJs' (root, pikhq), 07 Nov 2007 Retitled by P5301 'Allow retraction of CFJs' (Murphy), 28 Nov 2007 Amended(1) by P5301 'Allow retraction of CFJs' (Murphy), 28 Nov 2007 Amended(2) by P5384 (Murphy), 01 Jan 2008 Amended(3) by P5768 'One-way appeals' (Murphy), 17 Oct 2008 Amended(4) by P6024 'Cleanup of judicial definitions' (Murphy), 22 Dec 2008 Amended(5) by P6445 'Excess Cleanup' [disi.] (Alexis), 27 Aug 2009 Amended(6) by P6944 'There are FIVE CFJs!' [disi.] (omd), 16 Jan 2011 Amended(7) by P7623 'judicial patch' (G.), 23 Feb 2014 Amended(8) by P7629 'Do Things' (Alexis), 07 Apr 2014 Amended(9) by P7647 'formatting/misc fixes' (omd), 03 Jun 2014 Annotations: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rule 2492/7 (Power=1) Recusal A judge CAN recuse emself from a CFJ e is assigned to by announcement. The Arbitor CAN recuse a judge from a case by announcement, if that judge has violated a time limit for judging the case and has not judged it in the mean time; the Arbitor SHALL do so in a timely fashion after the time limit expires, if able. The Arbitor CAN recuse an inactive or unregistered judge by announcement. If a judge is recused from a case that was continuously open and assigned to em for at least the past 4 days, e SHOULD NOT be assigned as a judge until e has apologised and/or reasonably explained eir actions. History: Enacted by P7859 'Gentle Judicial Updates' (Quazie, grok), 27 Jun 2017 Amended(1) by P7888 'BILLY MAYS HERE' (o, R. Lee), 26 Sep 2017 Amended(2) by P8017 'RTRW Cleanups' (Alexis), 06 Mar 2018 Amended(3) by ruleset ratification, 14 Apr 2018 Amended(4) by P8215 'recusal simplification' (G.), 05 Sep 2019 Amended(5) by P8532 'Turn Undead v2' (G.), 03 Feb 2021 Amended(6) by P8601 'Adjust late recusal' (Murphy, Telna), 30 Aug 2021 Amended(7) by P9073 'In case of unexpected nonplayerhood' (Kate, Gaelan), 07 Apr 2024 Annotations: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rule 2246/7 (Power=2) Submitting a CFJ to the Referee When a person initiates a Call for Judgement, e CAN, optionally, submit it to the Referee by announcement. All persons are ENCOURAGED to submit a case to the Referee only when there is a good reason not to let it be processed by the Arbitor as usual. When a CFJ is submitted to the Referee, the Referee receives all obligations and powers, other than obligations to report, for that case that the Arbitor would otherwise receive due to being Arbitor. This rule takes precedence over Rules that would otherwise assign duties and powers regarding to a judicial case to the Arbitor. History: Enacted by P6181 'Try 3' (comex), 07 Apr 2009 Amended(1) by P6333 'Justiciar has no duty' (Alexis), 29 May 2009 Amended(2) by P6496 'Justiciar Swap' (Alexis), 26 Sep 2009 Amended(3) by P6662 'Maternal courage' [green, disi.] (Murphy), 10 Mar 2010 Amended(4) by P6752 'Fix the Justiciar hijinks' (Murphy), 02 Aug 2010 Amended(5) by P6891 'Disentanglement' (Alexis), 20 Nov 2010 Repealed by P6961 '52-pickup v2' (G.), 03 Mar 2011 Re-enacted(6) and amended by P8152 'Justice Reenactment' (G.), 22 Feb 2019 Amended(7) by P8882 'Referee referral reporting' (Janet), 15 Jan 2023 Annotations: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ======================================================================== Obligations & Contracts Agreements, promises, treaties, whatever you call them. This section contains rules which can bind players to obligations, in the form of Pledges and Contracts. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rule 2471/4 (Power=1) No Faking A person SHALL NOT make a public statement that is a lie. A public statement is falsy if any of the following was true at the time of publication: * The statement was not true and the author knew or should have known that it was not true. * The author did not believe the statement to be true. A public statement is a lie if it is falsy and any of the following is true: * The author made the statement with intent to mislead. * The author, in the same message, declared the statement to be made "under penalty of No Faking" (or similar). For the purposes of this rule, an attempt to perform an action by publishing certain text constitutes an implicit statement that the action was EFFECTIVE. Merely quoting a statement or attempt does not constitute making it for the purposes of this rule. Any disclaimer, conditional clause, or other qualifier attached to a statement or attempt constitutes part of the statement or attempt for the purposes of this rule; the truth or falsity of the whole is what is significant. The above notwithstanding, a formal announcement of intent is never a lie. History: Enacted by P7822 'Stop That' (Alexis), 07 Nov 2016 Amended(1) by P7892 'Truthfulness v2' (Aris), 26 Sep 2017 Amended(2) by P8645 'Some RTRW Clean-Ups' (ATMunn, nix), 15 Mar 2022 Amended(3) by P8877 'Fake fixes' (Janet, Murphy), 01 Jan 2023 Amended(4) by P9085 'Fix truthfulness loophole' (ais523), 07 Apr 2024 Annotations: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rule 2450/12 (Power=1.7) Pledges If a consenting Player makes a clear public pledge (syn. Oath) to perform (or refrain from performing) certain actions, then breaking the pledge is ILLEGAL; doing so is the Class N infraction of Oathbreaking, where N is the value explicitly stated by the pledge, or 2 if the pledge does not explicitly state a value. Allowing a pledge to expire without carrying out an action one pledged to do in it constitutes breaking the pledge. If it would otherwise be indeterminate whether a player has violated a pledge, then e shall be deemed to have violated that pledge. The time window of a pledge is W days, where W is the value explicitly stated by the pledge, or 60 if the pledge does not explicitly state a value. A pledge ceases to exist at the end of its time window. If breaking the pledge harms specific other parties, the Referee SHOULD solicit the opinion of those parties in determining an appropriate fine. The Notary CAN destroy a pledge Without Objection, but SHOULD NOT do so unless the pledge no longer serves any significant purpose. History: Enacted by P7761 'I wonder what this does' (G.), 19 Jul 2015 Amended(1) by P7862 'Betterer Pledges' (Quazie), 27 Jun 2017 Amended(2) by P7866 'More Betterer Pledges' (o, Aris, Quazie, G., Gaelan, D.F.F.), 16 Jul 2017 Amended(3) by P7901 'Make Your Home Shine' (o, Madrid, Ørjan, R. Lee, nix), 03 Oct 2017 Amended(4), 11 Jun 2018 Amended(5) by P8060 'Notary-B-Gone' (R. Lee), 18 Jul 2018 Amended(6) by P8303 'Contract Patency v3' (Aris, Gaelan, Janet, Falsifian), 29 Jan 2020 Amended(7) by P8331 'Promissory cleanliness' (Warrigal), 24 Feb 2020 Amended(8) by P8412 'Small Pledge Amendments' (R. Lee), 14 Jun 2020 Amended(9) by P8461 'Redoing Adopted Proposals' (R. Lee, Aris), 08 Jul 2020 Amended(10) by P8503 'Assorted Obligatory Patches' (Aris, G., nix, Janet), 25 Sep 2020 Amended(11) by P8811 'Infractions' (nix), 24 Jul 2022 Amended(12) by P9137 'A possible patch for a peculiar persisting pledge paradox' (Quadrantal, Aris), 13 Jul 2024 Annotations: CFJ 3683-3684 (called 01 Nov 2018): Attempts to create a pledge that does not include an action to perform or refrain from performing are INEFFECTIVE. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rule 2466/3 (Power=3) Acting on Behalf When a rule allows one person (the agent) to act on behalf of another (the principal) to perform an action, that agent CAN perform the action if it is POSSIBLE for the principal to do so, taking into account any prerequisites for the action. If the enabling rule does not specify the mechanism by which the agent may do so, then the agent CAN perform the action in the same manner in which the principal CAN do so, with the additional requirement that the agent must, in the message in which the action is performed, uniquely identify the principal and that the action is being taken on behalf of that person. A person SHALL NOT act on behalf of another person if doing so causes the second person to violate the rules. A person CANNOT act on behalf of another person to do anything except perform a game action; in particular, a person CANNOT act on behalf of another person to send a message, only to perform specific actions that might be taken within a message, including actions that would otherwise be taken by publishing certain text. When an action is performed on behalf of a principal, then the action is considered for all game purposes to have been performed by the principal, unless a rule specifically states that it is treated differently for some purpose, in which case it is treated as described by that rule. Allowing a person to act on behalf of another person is secured at power 2.0. This rule takes precedence over any rule that would prohibit a person from taking an action, except that it defers to any rule that imposes limitations specifically on actions taken on behalf of another person. An agent CANNOT act on behalf of a principal to perform an action via a specific method if the rules state that the actor acts "as emself" or "on eir own behalf" to perform the action via that method. History: Enacted by P7815 'Agencies' (Alexis, aranea), 28 Oct 2016 Amended(1) by P7924 'Contracts v8' (Aris, o, G., ais523, Gaelan, D.F.F., Madrid, R. Lee, Trigon, Alexis, P.S.S.), 22 Oct 2017 Amended(2) by P8402 'Promises' (Aris, Falsifian), 03 Jun 2020 Amended(3) by P8913 'emself v2' (G., Murphy), 12 Mar 2023 Annotations: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rule 2618/7 (Power=2.2) Promises Promises are a class of assets, tracked by the Notary. Their essential attributes are their text and creator. A consenting player CAN, by announcement, grant a specified entity a promise, specifying its text and becoming its creator. A promise's owner is referred to as its bearer. Promises with the same text, creator, and bearer are fungible. Promises with the same text and creator SHOULD be referred to by the same title, but the title is not an essential attribute of the promise, just a way of referring to it. The creation of promises is secured. The text of a promise CANNOT be altered after it is created. A player (the casher) CAN, by announcement, cash a promise, provided that both a) any conditions for cashing it specified by its text are unambiguously met, and b) either the casher is the promise's bearer, or the promise is owned by the Library. By doing so, e acts on the creator of the promise's behalf, causing the creator to act as if e published the promise's text, and destroys the promise. However, to limit recursion, no promise can be cashed during the execution of another promise unless it existed before the execution of that promise began. The bearer SHOULD recite the promise's essential attributes in the same message e cashes it. In a promise's text, "the bearer" and "the casher" (or the like) both refer to the player who cashed the promise, and "this promise" (or the like) refers to the promise. The text of the promise can refer to the context of the message in which it is cashed, but the context of the message does not otherwise change the meaning of the promise. The Library is an entity and CAN own promises. The creator of a promise CAN take or revoke it from the Library by announcement, unless the promise's text unambiguously designates it as irrevocable. Any player CAN revoke a specified promise from the Library without objection. If a promise specifies expiration conditions then any player CAN by announcement destroy it while the expiration conditions are unambiguously met. History: Enacted by P8402 'Promises' (Aris, Falsifian), 03 Jun 2020 Amended(1) by P8410 'Promise Powers Patch' (Aris), 14 Jun 2020 Amended(2) by P8503 'Assorted Obligatory Patches' (Aris, G., nix, Janet), 25 Sep 2020 Amended(3) by P8549 'You Can Only Stack Turtles So High' (Aris, Gaelan, G.), 09 Apr 2021 Amended(4) by P8554 'I Want My Promise Back!' (Aris, nix), 09 Apr 2021 Amended(5) by P8665 'Promise Expirations 1.1' (nix, Janet, ais523), 29 Apr 2022 Amended(6) by P8987 'I meant what I said' (Janet), 04 Jun 2023 Amended(7) by P9111 'Resolve The Paradox' (ais523), 26 May 2024 Annotations: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rule 2519/2 (Power=3) Consent A person is deemed to have consented to an action if and only if, at the time the action took place: 1. e, acting as emself, has publicly stated that e agrees to the action and not subsequently publicly withdrawn eir statement; 2. e is party to a contract whose body explicitly and unambiguously indicates eir consent; 3. the action is taken as part of a promise which e created; or 4. it is reasonably clear from context that e wanted the action to take place or assented to it taking place. History: Enacted by P7924 'Contracts v8' (Aris, o, G., ais523, Gaelan, D.F.F., Madrid, R. Lee, Trigon, Alexis, P.S.S.), 22 Oct 2017 Amended(1) by P8303 'Contract Patency v3' (Aris, Gaelan, Janet, Falsifian), 29 Jan 2020 Amended(2) by P8402 'Promises' (Aris, Falsifian), 03 Jun 2020 Annotations: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rule 1742/23 (Power=2.5) Contracts Any group of one or more consenting persons (the parties) may publicly make an agreement among themselves with the intention that it be binding upon them and be governed by the rules. Such an agreement is known as a contract. A contract may be modified, including by changing the set of parties, with the consent of all existing parties. A contract may also be terminated with the consent of all parties. A contract automatically terminates if the number of parties to it falls below one. It is IMPOSSIBLE for a person to become a party to a contract without eir consent. Parties to a contract governed by the rules SHALL act in accordance with that contract. This obligation is not impaired by contradiction between the contract and any other contract, or between the contract and the rules. Rules to the contrary notwithstanding, any change that would cause the full provisions or parties of a contract to become publicly unavailable is canceled and does not take effect. The portion of a contract's provisions that can be interpreted with reference only to information that is either publicly or generally available are known as its body; the remainder of the provisions are known as the annex. A party to a contract CAN perform any of the following actions as explicitly and unambiguously permitted by the contract's body: * Act on behalf of another party to the contract. * By announcement, revoke destructible assets from the contract. * By announcement, transfer liquid assets from the contract to a specified recipient. Any player CAN cause a contract to be terminated (syn. "shred") without 2 objections. This SHOULD only be done to remove unused contracts or contracts deemed detrimental to the game as a whole. History: Enacted by P3558 'Contract Law' (General Chaos), 24 Oct 1997 Amended(1) by P3704 (General Chaos), 19 Mar 1998 Amended(2) by P4018 'Property and Democracy' (Kelly), 21 Jun 2000 Amended(3) by P4533 'Bolshevik Revolution of 2003' (Murphy), 26 Oct 2003 Amended(4) by P4867 'Judicial Reform 2.0' (G.), 27 Aug 2006 Retitled by P4987 'non-player agreements' (BobTHJ), 06 Jun 2007 Amended(5) by P4987 'non-player agreements' (BobTHJ), 06 Jun 2007 Amended(6) by P5009 'enforce agreements' (Zefram), 18 Jun 2007 Amended(7) by P5028 'complete generalisation of agreements' (Zefram), 28 Jun 2007 Amended(8) by P5040 'separate Civil CFJ procedure' (Zefram), 28 Jun 2007 Retitled by P5086 'judicial reform' (Zefram), 01 Aug 2007 Power changed from 1 to 1.5 by P5086 'judicial reform' (Zefram), 01 Aug 2007 Amended(9) by P5086 'judicial reform' (Zefram), 01 Aug 2007 Amended(10) by P5254 'Resurrect the Notary' (Zefram), 18 Oct 2007 Amended(11) by P5362 'Contracting out locations' (root), 20 Dec 2007 Amended(12) by P5403 'Public contract repair' (Murphy, G.), 16 Jan 2008 Amended(13) by P5420 'Smaller Contracts' (Wooble), 02 Feb 2008 Amended(14) by P5423 'Refactoring Contracts II' [disi.] (woggle), 06 Feb 2008 Amended(15) by P5640 'Take it to Equity!' (G.), 29 Jul 2008 Amended(16) by P5663 'Clarify contract creation' (Murphy), 09 Aug 2008 Power changed from 1.5 to 2 by P5703 'Fix contract termination' [disi.] (root), 01 Oct 2008 Amended(17) by P5759 'Non-Nuclear Option' (comex), 16 Oct 2008 Assigned to the Committee on Small Business and Entrepeneurship by P6053 'Committees' (Murphy, woggle, ais523), 23 Jan 2009 Amended(18) by P6197 'Refactor contracts' (Murphy), 27 Apr 2009 Repealed by P6635 'Agree to Disagree' [red] (coppro), 20 Feb 2010 Re-enacted(19) and amended by P8054 'Minimalist Contracts v2' (Aris, G., R. Lee), 01 Jul 2018 Amended(20) by P8139 'Access to contracts' assets v2' (Kate, G.), 15 Jan 2019 Amended(21) by P8163 'Holey Loops, Batman!' (Kate), 22 Feb 2019 Amended(22) by P8303 'Contract Patency v3' (Aris, Gaelan, Janet, Falsifian), 29 Jan 2020 Amended(23) by P8559 'Paper Shredding' (ATMunn, G., Aris), 25 May 2021 Annotations: CFJ 3644 (called 29 Sep 2018): If a set of players consent to make an agreement that is to be binding, it is a contract, regardless of whether or not it is explicitly stated to be one. CFJ 3813 (called 13 Feb 2020): Agora is not a contract. CFJ 3866 (called 08 Jul 2020): A contract cannot automatically create another contract, because the new contract would not have been made in a public message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rule 2608/4 (Power=2.0) The Notary The Notary is an office. The Notary's monthly report contains: 1. every pledge, along with its title, creator, time window, time of creation, and time of expiry; 2. every contract, with its title, full provisions, and parties; and 3. every promise, along with its title, text, creator, and bearer. If the Notary is required to report an entity's title, but none has been otherwise publicly provided, e CAN assign one by public designation. History: Enacted by P8303 'Contract Patency v3' (Aris, Gaelan, Janet, Falsifian), 29 Jan 2020 Amended(1) by R2608, 28 Apr 2020 Amended(2) by P8402 'Promises' (Aris, Falsifian), 03 Jun 2020 Amended(3) by P8541 'You CAN, CAN't You?' (Aris), 02 Mar 2021 Amended(4) by P8894 'Load Lightening' (nix), 17 Feb 2023 Annotations: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ======================================================================== Assets Assets are things players can own. This section describes how that works. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rule 2166/32 (Power=3) Assets An asset is an entity defined as such by a document that has been granted Mint Authority by the Rules (hereafter the asset's backing document), and existing solely because its backing document defines its existence. An asset's backing document can generally specify when and how that asset is created, destroyed, and transferred. The rules collectively have Mint Authority. Contracts have Mint Authority. An asset defined by rule or regulation is public; any other asset is private. History: Enacted by P5173 'Assets' (Murphy), 29 Aug 2007 Amended(1) by P5216 'More asset repair' (Murphy), 13 Sep 2007 Amended(2) by P5388 'only private assets can hyperinflate' (Murphy), 01 Jan 2008 Amended(3) by P5475 'Asset unsmashing' (Murphy), 24 Mar 2008 Amended(4) by P5476 'Spelling/grammar check' [disi.] (Murphy), 27 Mar 2008 Amended(5) by P5496 'Remove the one-two punch' (Murphy), 23 Apr 2008 Amended(6) by P5833 'No involuntary recordkeepors' (Murphy, Taral), 12 Nov 2008 Amended(7) by P5840 'No accounting of private assets' (root), 12 Nov 2008 Amended(8) by P5974 'I can has grammar' [disi.] (Murphy), 25 Nov 2008 Amended(9) by P6023 'Cleanup of Power=2 definitions' (Murphy), 22 Dec 2008 Assigned to the Committee on Finance by P6053 'Committees' (Murphy, woggle, ais523), 23 Jan 2009 Amended(10) by P6161 'Spending cap' (Murphy), 31 Mar 2009 Amended(11) by P6253 'In the future, I want my stuff back: a more general solution v1.2' (Quazie), 09 May 2009 Amended(12) by cleaning (Murphy), 16 Aug 2009 Amended(13) by P6430 'Asset Cleanup' (Alexis), 18 Aug 2009 Amended(14) by P6650 'Contract Cleanup' [purple] (Alexis), 10 Mar 2010 Amended(15) by P6650 'Contract Cleanup' [purple] (Alexis), 10 Mar 2010 Amended(16) by P6792 'Contests' [purple] (omd), 27 Aug 2010 Amended(17) by P6916 'oops' [disi.] (omd), 02 Jan 2011 Amended(18) by P7298 (FKA441344), 09 Sep 2012 Amended(19) by P7420 'We don't need to be that idiosyncratic un-derp version' (omd), 27 May 2013 Amended(20) by P7586 'Self-ratification, victory, office changes' (omd), 24 Aug 2013 Amended(21) by P7617 'A Complex Game 2' (G.), 16 Jan 2014 Repealed by P7629 'Do Things' (Alexis), 07 Apr 2014 Re-enacted(22) and amended by P7864 (Aris, G., o, nix, P.S.S.), 27 Jun 2017 Power changed from 2.0 to 3.0 by P7864 (Aris, G., o, nix, P.S.S.), 27 Jun 2017 Amended(23) by P7868 'Minor economic fixes' (Murphy), 30 Jul 2017 Amended(24) by P7924 'Contracts v8' (Aris, o, G., ais523, Gaelan, D.F.F., Madrid, R. Lee, Trigon, Alexis, P.S.S.), 22 Oct 2017 Amended(25) by P8003 'Asset fix' (Corona), 31 Jan 2018 Amended(26) by P8030 'PAoaM Patch v4' (Aris, Gaelan, Trigon, G.), 30 Mar 2018 Amended(27) by P8055 'Distributed Assets v3' (Aris, G.), 01 Jul 2018 Amended(28) by P8129 'Bugfix: Treasuror doesn't self-ratify v2' (Kate, Trigon, G.), 19 Nov 2018 Amended(29) by P8364 'Mint Regulations' (Aris), 04 Apr 2020 Amended(30) by P8405 'Generic private assets' (Janet), 12 Jun 2020 Amended(31) by P8607 'Asset Self-Ratification Fix' (Telna, ais523, Alexis), 18 Oct 2021 Amended(32) by P9171 'Rationalizing Recordkeepors v1.2' (Kate, Murphy, Janet, 4st), 15 Sep 2024 Annotations: CFJ 3597 (called 09 Nov 2017): When the rules require a payment of a number of assets, a number of small payments summing to the total do not fulfill the requirement. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rule 2576/4 (Power=3) Ownership Each asset has exactly one owner. An asset CANNOT be gained by or transferred to an entity unless its backing document specifies that entity can own it. If an asset's backing document is otherwise silent on which entities can own it, then it can be owned by Agora, players, and contracts. An asset "in abeyance" is one whose owner is nonexistent, indeterminate, or invalid. If an asset would otherwise be in abeyance, then it is owned by the Lost and Found Department (if possible) or destroyed (otherwise), subject to modification by its backing document (provided that the modification either destroys it or prevents it from being in abeyance). Rules to the contrary notwithstanding, the Lost and Found Department can own assets of every type. Assets owned by the Lost and Found Department can be transferred or destroyed by any player without objection. History: Enacted by P8055 'Distributed Assets v3' (Aris, G.), 01 Jul 2018 Amended(1) by P8366 'Asset Determinacy' (Aris, Kate), 17 Apr 2020 Amended(2) by P8484 'Clarify asset ownership' (Murphy, Madrid, Aris), 10 Aug 2020 Amended(3) by P8500 'Clarify asset ownership some more' (Murphy, G.), 25 Sep 2020 Amended(4) by P9075 'No Hidden Ownership Restrictions' (nix, Janet, kiako), 07 Apr 2024 Annotations: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rule 2577/8 (Power=3) Asset Actions An asset generally CAN be destroyed by its owner by announcement, subject to modification by its backing document. Attempts to destroy no assets are successful. An indestructible asset is one defined as such by its backing document, and CANNOT be destroyed except as explicitly specified by its backing document; any other asset is destructible. For an entity to gain (historical syn. earn) an asset is for that asset to be created in that entity's possession. To grant an entity an asset is to create it in eir possession. To grant an entity a set of assets is to create each asset in the set in eir possession. For an entity to lose an asset is for that asset to be destroyed from that entity's possession. To revoke an asset from an entity is to destroy it from that entity's possession. For entity A to take an asset from entity B is to transfer it from entity B to entity A. An asset generally CAN be transferred (syn. given) by announcement by its owner to another entity, subject to modification by its backing document. Attempts to transfer no assets are successful. A fixed asset is one defined as such by its backing document, and CANNOT be transferred except as explicitly specified by its backing document; any other asset is liquid. When a rule indicates creating, destroying, or transferring an amount of assets that is not a natural number, the specified amount is rounded up to the nearest natural number after all other calculations. History: Enacted by P8055 'Distributed Assets v3' (Aris, G.), 01 Jul 2018 Amended(1) by P8126 'High-level asset verbs' (Trigon), 19 Nov 2018 Amended(2) by P8187 'Not so indestructible now, eh?' (Janet), 22 Jun 2019 Amended(3) by P8488 'Empty the escalator v1' (Falsifian, Janet, omd), 08 Sep 2020 Amended(4) by P8488 'Empty the escalator v1' (Falsifian, Janet, omd), 08 Sep 2020 Amended(5) by P8518 'Asset Rounding' (Aris, Falsifian, nix), 11 Nov 2020 Amended(6) by P8528 'Gaining Assets' (Aris, Gaelan), 13 Jan 2021 Amended(7) by P8659 'Speak Like People' (nix, G., snail), 03 Apr 2022 Amended(8) by P8953 'Fluidity' (Janet), 23 Apr 2023 Annotations: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rule 2578/3 (Power=3) Fungibility A fungible asset is one where two instances of it are considered equivalent if they have the same owner, for the purposes of specification, granting, and transferring. The total amount of a fungible asset that an entity owns is also know as that entity's "balance" of that asset. History: Enacted by P8055 'Distributed Assets v3' (Aris, G.), 01 Jul 2018 Amended(1) by P8186 'Minor currency fixes' (Janet), 22 Jun 2019 Retitled from 'Currencies' to 'Fungibility' by P9076 'FUNgibility' (nix), 07 Apr 2024 Amended(2) by P9076 'FUNgibility' (nix), 07 Apr 2024 Amended(3) by cleaning (Mischief), 19 May 2024 Annotations: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rule 2579/3 (Power=3) Fee-based Actions If the Rules associate payment of a set of assets (hereafter the fee for the action; syns: cost, price, charge) with performing an action, that method for performing that action is a fee-based method. If the fee is a non-integer quantity of a fungible asset, the actual fee is the next highest integer amount of that asset. To use a fee-based method, an entity (the Actor) who is otherwise permitted to perform the action must announce that e is performing the action; the announcement must specify the correct set of assets for the fee and indicate intent to pay that fee for the sole purpose of using that method to perform that action. Upon such an announcement: - If the Rules specify a recipient for the fee, and the Actor CAN transfer that specified fee from emself to the recipient, then that fee is transferred from the Actor to the recipient and the action is performed simultaneously; - If the Rules do not specify a recipient, and the Actor CAN destroy the specified fee in eir possession, then that fee in eir possession is destroyed and the action is performed simultaneously. - Otherwise, no changes are made to asset holdings and the action is not performed. History: Enacted by P8055 'Distributed Assets v3' (Aris, G.), 01 Jul 2018 Amended(1) by P8462 'Fee-based methods' (Janet, Falsifian), 08 Jul 2020 Amended(2) by P8486 'Fee-based de-escalation' (Janet, omd), 10 Aug 2020 Amended(3) by P8488 'Empty the escalator v1' (Falsifian, Janet, omd), 08 Sep 2020 Annotations: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ======================================================================== Economics The economic landscape changes quickly in Agora. No matter what name we give to them, though, they all function similarly. This section only describes the core mechanics. Any other economic subsystems are described elsewhere. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rule 2659/12 (Power=1) Stamps Stamps are a category of asset ownable by players and contracts. The Collector is a sortitioned office. The Collector tracks Stamps in eir weekly report. For each person there is a corresponding type of stamp. Stamps of any given type are fungible. Any player CAN, once per week, pay X stamps, where each specified stamp is a different type, to gain (X-1)*3 radiance. Any player CAN, once per week, pay X Stamps, where each Stamp is the same type, to gain (X-1)*2 radiance. Any active player CAN win by paying N Stamps, where N is the current number of active players and each specified Stamp is of a different type. Any player CAN pay a fee of 5 Spendies to grant emself X stamps of eir own type. When less than 8 Stamps of eir type exist, X is 2. When 8 to 15 Stamps of eir type exist, X is 1. When 16 or more stamps of eir type exist, X is 0. Any player CAN pay a fee of 5 + (X) Spendies to transfer a specified stamp from the L&FD to emself. X is equal to the number of times e has already done so in the current month. History: Enacted by P8661 'Stamps v1.2' (nix, G., Janet, Trigon), 03 Apr 2022 Amended(1) by P8669 'Quick Stamp Fix' (nix), 08 May 2022 Amended(2) by P8872 'Anti-Capitalists Dream of Stamp Collecting' (nix, G., Janet, Shy Owl), 11 Dec 2022 Amended(3) by P8919 'Radiance v1.1' (nix, G., 4st, snail), 12 Mar 2023 Amended(4) by P8997 'Stamp fungibility' (Janet, Murphy), 19 Jun 2023 Amended(5) by P9034 'A simple fix' (snail, nix), 03 Dec 2023 Amended(6) by P9075 'No Hidden Ownership Restrictions' (nix, Janet, kiako), 07 Apr 2024 Amended(7) by P9076 'FUNgibility' (nix), 07 Apr 2024 Amended(8) by P9079 'Spendies v1.1' (nix, Janet, kiako), 07 Apr 2024 Amended(9) by P9109 'Sortition' (nix, Janet), 12 May 2024 Amended(10) by P9186 'No more stamps for Agora' (kiako), 20 Oct 2024 Amended(11) by P9200 'Rebalancing' (Mischief, ais523), 22 Dec 2024 Amended(12) by P9206 'Let Contracts Own Stamps' (Mischief), 26 Jan 2025 Annotations: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rule 2701/1 (Power=1.0) Stamp Scamp A rare stamp is a stamp that is the only one of its type that exists. Stamp scamp is a singleton switch tracked by the Collector with possible values of each player and null (default). Upon a correct announcement that a specified player owns more rare stamps than any other player, the stamp scamp switch is flipped to that player. If no person has done so by this mechanism in this quarter, the value of the stamp scamp switch, if a player, CAN by announcement cause another specified player to gain one stamp of that player's type. History: Enacted by P9199 'Rare Stamps, Differently' (Mischief), 22 Dec 2024 Amended(1) by P9204 'Rare stamps, more differently' (Janet), 26 Jan 2025 Annotations: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rule 2499/24 (Power=1) Welcome Packages When a player receives a welcome package, if e has not received a welcome package, including under any previous definition, since e last registered nor in the past 30 days, e gains the following assets: * One stamp of eir own type. * 10 spendies, if e has not been granted any spendies since e last registered. A player CAN, by announcement, cause a specified player to receive a welcome package (syn. "grant" em a welcome package). History: Enacted by P7867 'Economics Overhaul v2' (nix, o, grok, Aris), 30 Jul 2017 Amended(1) by P7882 'Welcome Package CAN Patch' (o, K, ais523), 26 Sep 2017 Repealed by P8004 'Rusty' (G.), 31 Jan 2018 Re-enacted(2) at Power=1 and amended by P8041 'Consolidated Patch' (Aris, Trigon, G.), 27 Apr 2018 Amended(3) by P8053 'patch patch patch' (G., Aris), 01 Jul 2018 Amended(4) by P8072 'Steel Based Manufacturing v3' (Aris, Kate), 26 Jul 2018 Amended(5) by P8092 'Yet Another Economics Patch' (Kate), 17 Sep 2018 Amended(6) by P8126 'High-level asset verbs' (Trigon), 19 Nov 2018 Amended(7) by P8408 'Sets v1.4' (nix, Trigon, Falsifian, Publius Scribonius Scholasticus, Janet, Aris, G., ais523), 12 Jun 2020 Amended(8) by P8458 'Welcome Package Patch' (Aris), 30 Jun 2020 Amended(9) by P8472 'Welcoming Back Outlaws, etc.' (Aris), 08 Jul 2020 Amended(10) by P8480 'Generic welcome package fix' (Janet), 10 Aug 2020 Amended(11) by P8514 'The Buoyant Economy' (Aris, nix, Trigon, G., Janet, ATMunn), 28 Oct 2020 Amended(12) by P8528 'Gaining Assets' (Aris, Gaelan), 13 Jan 2021 Amended(13) by P8535 'We the People' (Aris, Trigon, nix, G., Gaelan), 03 Feb 2021 Amended(14) by P8659 'Speak Like People' (nix, G., snail), 03 Apr 2022 Amended(15) by P8660 'The End of Sets' (nix, G., Janet, snail), 03 Apr 2022 Amended(16) by P8667 'welcome fix' (G.), 29 Apr 2022 Amended(17) by P8674 'Proper Postage v2' (nix), 18 May 2022 Amended(18) by R2658, 09 Jun 2022 Amended(19) by P8872 'Anti-Capitalists Dream of Stamp Collecting' (nix, G., Janet, Shy Owl), 11 Dec 2022 Amended(20) by P8874 'The Big Horse Fix' (snail), 01 Jan 2023 Amended(21) by P8973 'Not so welcome anymore' (Janet), 25 May 2023 Amended(22) by P9091 'Welcome package fix, again, again' (Janet, Aris), 21 Apr 2024 Amended(23) by P9098 'Welcome Spendies' (snail), 02 May 2024 Amended(24) by P9133 'Last from the Past' (snail), 06 Jul 2024 Annotations: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rule 2585/10 (Power=1) Birthday Gifts It is considered to be a player's Agoran Birthday on the anniversary of the day e first registered. If the day a player first registered is unknown, that player CAN, with Agoran consent, declare a day to be eir Agoran Birthday. As long as the day a player first registered remains unknown, it is considered to be eir Agoran Birthday on the anniversary of the day e most recently declared as eir Agoran Birthday. In a timely fashion after the start of a player's Agoran Birthday, the Registrar SHALL announce it. History: Enacted by P8143 'Happy Birthday to You v3' (Trigon), 15 Jan 2018 Amended(1) by P8145 'No Rebirth' (Gaelan), 15 Jan 2019 Amended(2) by P8221 'Usage de-capitalization' (Janet, Aris), 05 Sep 2019 Amended(3) by P8314 'Finite Gifting' (Aris), 13 Feb 2020 Amended(4) by P8507 'Happy Belated Birthday v3' (ATMunn, G., Falsifian), 28 Oct 2020 Amended(5) by P8514 'The Buoyant Economy' (Aris, nix, Trigon, G., Janet, ATMunn), 28 Oct 2020 Amended(6) by P8541 'You CAN, CAN't You?' (Aris), 02 Mar 2021 Amended(7) by P8685 'auto-birthday' (G.), 25 Jun 2022 Amended(8) by P8872 'Anti-Capitalists Dream of Stamp Collecting' (nix, G., Janet, Shy Owl), 11 Dec 2022 Amended(9) by P8965 'Registrar Tracks Birthdays' (nix), 19 May 2023 Amended(10) by P9132 'Fashionable Manners' (Mischief, Janet), 06 Jul 2024 Annotations: CFJ 3873 (called 08 Aug 2020): Under the current rules, it is someone's birthday on the day e first registers. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rule 2690/7 (Power=1.0) Spendies The Spendor is an office. Spendies are a fungible liquid asset ownable by players and contracts. Spendies are tracked by the Spendor in eir weekly report. If the Spendor's report is overdue, then other players SHOULD deputise to publish it. At the end of each month, all Spendies are destroyed. At the beginning of each month, every player is granted 20 Spendies. History: Enacted by P9079 'Spendies v1.1' (nix, Janet, kiako), 07 Apr 2024 Amended(1) by P9079 'Spendies v1.1' (nix, Janet, kiako), 07 Apr 2024 Amended(2) by P9089 'Who are you, again, again?' (Janet), 21 Apr 2024 Amended(3) by P9109 'Sortition' (nix, Janet), 12 May 2024 Amended(4) by P9176 'Adjusting the Money Supply' (Mischief), 15 Sep 2024 Amended(5) by P9191 'Back to the twenties' (snail), 20 Oct 2024 Amended(6) by P9196 'Use it or lose it' (Murphy, Alexis), 16 Dec 2024 Amended(7) by P9201 'Vox Populi > Vox Fortunae' (snail, Mischief), 22 Dec 2024 Annotations: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rule 2699/0 (Power=1.5) Contests Contestation is a secured negative boolean contract switch tracked by the Notary. A contract whose contestation switch is true is a contest. A player CAN flip a specified contract's contestation to true without 2 objections. A player CAN flip a specified contract's contestation to false with Agoran consent. History: Enacted by P9197 'The Game is Afoot' (Mischief, ais523, Kate), 22 Dec 2024 Annotations: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rule 2700/0 (Power=1.5) Candles Candles are fixed fungible assets tracked by the Illuminator. Contests are the only entities permitted to own candles, and any candles held by any other entity are immediately destroyed. A player CAN pay a fee of 1 spendie to grant 1 candle to a contest. As explicitly and unambiguously permitted by a contest's body, a party to that contest CAN bestow a prize by an announcement clearly identifying the recipient player, the amount of radiance to award (N), and the relevant contest. Upon doing so, if the specified contest possesses at least N candles the following happen in order: N of its candles are destroyed, then the specified player gains N radiance. History: Enacted by P9197 'The Game is Afoot' (Mischief, ais523, Kate), 22 Dec 2024 Annotations: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ======================================================================== Scoring A game in which players attempt attempt to amass points, in order to (presumably) become the Pointiest. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rule 2656/10 (Power=1.5) Radiance The Illuminator is an office, responsible for tracking radiance. A player's Radiance is an integer player switch defaulting to 0, tracked by the Illuminator. When a player is "granted" or "gains" a specified amount of radiance, eir radiance is increased by that amount. Upon a correct announcement from a player that eir radiance is 100 or more (correctly specifying the amount), e wins the game. Then, eir radiance is set to 0, and all other players' radiance are set to half their current value rounded down. Once a quarter, the Illuminator CAN (and SHALL during its first Eastman week) publish a Notice of Diminution, upon which all radiance switches are set to half their current value rounded down. Any player CAN increase eir radiance by 1 by paying a fee of 2 Spendies. History: Enacted by P8636 'Points' (G.), 08 Feb 2022 Amended(1) by P8684 'Score Gameplay Expansion' (nix), 25 Jun 2022 Amended(2) by P8706 'Let them have points' (snail), 17 Jul 2022 Amended(3) by P8872 'Anti-Capitalists Dream of Stamp Collecting' (nix, G., Janet, Shy Owl), 11 Dec 2022 Amended(4) by P8914 'Can't Trust Em To Do Eir Own Work' (nix), 12 Mar 2023 Retitled by P8919 'Radiance v1.1' (nix, G., 4st, snail), 12 Mar 2023 Amended(5) by P8919 'Radiance v1.1' (nix, G., 4st, snail), 12 Mar 2023 Amended(6) by P9026 'It's a bit dark in here' (Janet, Kate), 19 Nov 2023 Amended(7) by P9079 'Spendies v1.1' (nix, Janet, kiako), 07 Apr 2024 Amended(8) by P9109 'Sortition' (nix, Janet), 12 May 2024 Amended(9) by P9154 'Pragmatic quarters, take two' (Murphy, Mischief), 18 Aug 2024 Amended(10) by P9201 'Vox Populi > Vox Fortunae' (snail, Mischief), 22 Dec 2024 Annotations: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ======================================================================== Victory All games have winners, and Agora is no exception. If you're interested in getting some serious bragging points among the Agorans, this is the right place to look. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rule 2449/3 (Power=3) Winning the Game When the Rules state that a person or persons win the game, those persons win the game; specifically they win the Round that ends with the indicated win. Agora itself does not end and the ruleset remains unchanged. The Herald is then authorized to award those persons the Patent Title of Champion once, by announcement. History: Enacted by P7760 'Next Win System' (G.), 19 Jul 2015 Amended(1) by P7808 'Win at any Power' (G.), 10 Aug 2016 Amended(2) by P7812 'Persons Can Win' (G.), 11 Sep 2016 Amended(3) by P8017 'RTRW Cleanups' (Alexis), 06 Mar 2018 Annotations: CFJ 3887 (called 21 Oct 2020): An instrument that is empowered to make general changes in the game (e.g. a proposal taking effect) CAN cause persons to win the game. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rule 2465/1 (Power=0.3) Victory by Apathy A player CAN Declare Apathy without objection, specifying a set of players. Upon doing so, the specified players win the game, except for those who have won the game through this Rule in the past 14 days. History: Enacted by P7811 'Winning by apathy' (ais523), 11 Sep 2016 Amended(1) by P8553 'Slightly less apathetic' (Janet), 09 Apr 2021 Annotations: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rule 2553/6 (Power=1) Win by Paradox If a CFJ about the effectiveness, possibility, or legality of a change in the gamestate has been assigned a judgement of PARADOXICAL continuously for between 7 and 90 days, then that case's initiator, CAN, by announcement, Transcend Logic, specifying that CFJ, provided that e has not already won the game with respect to that CFJ or to a CFJ linked to it. When a person transcends logic, e wins the game. A player who wins in this fashion SHOULD submit a proposal to prevent the paradox from arising again. History: Enacted by P7976 'A Mostest Ingenious Paradox' (Alexis, ais523), 26 Nov 2017 Amended(1) by P8379 'Expand wins by paradox' (Murphy), 22 May 2020 Amended(2) by P8453 'win indirection' (G.), 30 Jun 2020 Amended(3) by P8600 'fix win lockouts' (G.), 30 Aug 2021 Amended(4) by P8609 'Axiom of Limitations' (Janet), 18 Oct 2021 Amended(5) by cleaning (4st), 25 Apr 2023 Amended(6) by P9147 'Paradox cleanup fix' (ais523), 05 Aug 2024 Annotations: CFJ 3620 (called 06 Feb 2018): A CFJ assigned a judgment of PARADOXICAL only triggers Win by Paradox if it concerns the legality or possibility of a game action. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ======================================================================== Awards Even if it's not a win, there are still a good few opportunities to win bragging points, like Ribbons and Patent Titles. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rule 2438/35 (Power=3) Ribbons The Tailor is an office, and the recordkeepor of Ribbons. For each type of Ribbon, Ribbon Ownership is a secured negative boolean person switch, tracked by the Tailor in eir monthly report. Laudability is a secured person switch with non-negative integer possible values, defaulting to 0, tracked by the Tailor as part of eir monthly report. When a person owns more types of ribbons than eir Laudability, eir Laudability is set to the number of types of ribbons e owns. To "award a person a " is to flip that person's Ribbon Ownership to True. A person "owns a " if eir Ribbon Ownership is True. A person qualifies for a type of Ribbon if e has earned that type of Ribbon within the preceding 7 days (including earlier in the same message). While a person owns all types of Ribbon, that person can Raise a Banner by announcement. This causes that person to win the game. When a person wins this way, for each type of Ribbon, that person's Ribbon Ownership is flipped to False. The types of Ribbon, and the methods of obtaining them, are as follows: Red (R): When a proposal is adopted and changes at least one rule that, immediately before or after the change, has Power >= 3, its proposer earns a Red Ribbon. Orange (O): When a proposal is adopted via a referendum on which no valid ballots were AGAINST (after evaluating conditionals), its proposer earns an Orange Ribbon. Green (G): While a person holds a voluntary office, has done so continuously for the past 30 days, and has not failed to perform any duties of that office within the appropriate time limits during those 30 days, that person qualifies for a Green Ribbon. Emerald (E): When a person wins an election, e earns an Emerald Ribbon. Cyan (C): When a person deputises for an office or is the delegate for an office while its holder is on vacation, and that person has not held or deputised for that office within the past 7 days, that person earns a Cyan Ribbon. Blue (B): When a person assigns a judgement to a CFJ, and has never violated a time limit to assign a judgement to that CFJ, nor ever self-filed a motion to reconsider that CFJ, that person earns a Blue Ribbon. Magenta (M): When, during Agora's Birthday, a person publicly acknowledges it, that person earns a Magenta Ribbon. Ultraviolet (U): When a person is awarded the Patent Title Champion, that person earns an Ultraviolet Ribbon, unless the Champion title was awarded as the result of winning the game via this rule. Violet (V): When a person is awarded a Patent Title other than Champion or a degree, that person earns a Violet Ribbon. Indigo (I): When a person is awarded a degree, that person earns an Indigo Ribbon. Platinum (P): The Speaker qualifies for a Platinum Ribbon. Lime (L): A person qualifies for a Lime Ribbon if three or more proposals adopted in the preceding 7 days had that person as a coauthor. White (W): A player qualifies for a White Ribbon if e has never previously owned a White Ribbon (including under previous rulesets). A player who has been registered for the past 30+ days or 180+ cumulative days and has never acted on eir own behalf to cause another person to gain a White Ribbon (including under a previous ruleset) CAN act on eir own behalf to cause another person to earn a White Ribbon by announcement. Black (K): An instrument CAN, as part of its effect, cause a person to earn a Black Ribbon. Gray (A): Once per month the Tailor CAN, by announcement, cause a specified player to earn a Gray Ribbon. E is ENCOURAGED to do so in the same message in which e publishes eir monthly report. Transparent (T): A person qualifies for a Transparent Ribbon while the number of other types of Ribbon that that person qualified for within the previous 7 days is at least 5. When a person earns a White, Black or Gray Ribbon, this Rule awards that person a Ribbon of that type. While a person qualifies for a type of Ribbon: - If e has not owned that type of Ribbon within the preceding 7 days, any player CAN, by announcement, award em that type of Ribbon. Qualifying for ribbons is secured. Earning ribbons is secured. History: Enacted by P7698 'Ribbons 2014' (ais523), 03 Nov 2014 Power changed from 1 to 3 by P7725 'Powering up ribbons' (aranea), 16 Nov 2014 Amended(1) by P7735 'Noise reduction' (aranea), 02 May 2015 Amended(2) by P7746 'Fix Black Ribbons' (aranea), 19 May 2015 Amended(3) by P7748 'The Tailor Award' (ais523), 30 Jun 2015 Amended(4) by P7760 'Next Win System' (G.), 19 Jul 2015 Amended(5) by P7834 'Rush of Ribbons' (ais523), 05 Dec 2016 Amended(6) by P7922 'Clarity Act' (Alexis), 23 Oct 2017 Amended(7) by P7933 'Ribbon Preservation Act' (Alexis), 06 Nov 2017 Amended(8) by P7965 'One pronoun fix' (Trigon), 21 Nov 2017 Amended(9) by P7992 'More CAN Fixes' (Alexis), 13 Jan 2018 Amended(10) by P8232 'Increased transparency v1.1' (Murphy, Janet, Kate), 05 Sep 2019 Amended(11) by P8267 'Emerald Ribbons' (Janet), 11 Nov 2019 Amended(12) by P8283 'Ex Post Ribbon' (Alexis), 20 Jan 2020 Amended(13) by P8295 'Rewards Reform Act' (Bernie, Kate, Alexis), 29 Jan 2020 Amended(14) by P8323 'Secure Ribbons' (Janet), 24 Feb 2020 Amended(15) by P8330 'No looting white ribbons' (G.), 24 Feb 2020 Amended(16) by P8346 'De-secure Black Ribbons v2' (Janet, ais523), 10 Mar 2020 Amended(17) by P8353 'All that glisters' (Murphy), 21 Mar 2020 Amended(18) by P8386 'Restraining Motions' (G.), 22 May 2020 Amended(19) by P8418 'Referenda' (Aris), 14 Jun 2020 Amended(20) by P8460 'UV-G Sunblock' (G., ais523), 08 Jul 2020 Amended(21) by P8463 'Future-proofing black ribbons' (Janet), 08 Jul 2020 Amended(22) by P8487 'Simpler ribbon switches' (Murphy, R. Lee), 10 Aug 2020 Amended(23) by P8539 'The Great Rollback' (Aris, G.), 11 Feb 2021 Amended(24) by P8595 'It's a gray, gray, world.' (R. Lee, Janet), 29 Jul 2021 Amended(25) by P8634 'Laudability' (Janet), 24 Dec 2021 Amended(26) by P8638 'Cyan Ribbon Patch' (snail), 23 Feb 2022 Amended(27) by P8708 'Has Beens' (nix, snail, G., Madrid, 4st, Janet), 17 Jul 2022 Amended(28) by P8902 'More ribbon security' (Janet), 26 Feb 2023 Amended(29) by cleaning (4st), 25 Apr 2023 Amended(30) by P9072 'Vacations v4' (snail, nix, Janet, 4st, Yachay Wayllukuq, G., juan, Murphy, ais523), 22 Mar 2024 Amended(31) by cleaning (Mischief), 19 May 2024 Amended(32) by P9136 'Sorting out sortition' (Janet, Kate, Mischief), 13 Jul 2024 Amended(33) by P9173 'Mid-2024 Omnibus Cleanup Act' (Mischief, Murphy, ais523, Janet, 4st), 15 Sep 2024 Amended(34) by P9187 'Gray Ribbon clarification' (kiako, Janet, Kate), 20 Oct 2024 Amended(35) by P9223 'Yet Another Transparent Ribbon Solution' (Kate, Mischief, ais523, Janet), 16 Mar 2025 Annotations: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rule 2480/9 (Power=3.1) Festivals Festivity is a secured singleton switch, whose possible values are integers ranging from 0 inclusive to the number of defined types of Ribbon exclusive, and defaulting to 0. Festivity is tracked in the Tailor's monthly report. In addition, while Festivity is non-zero, the Tailor SHALL announce its value each week; a public document purporting to be such an announcement is self-ratifying. A Festival is ongoing whenever Agora's Festivity is non-zero. If Agora's Festivity has had the same non-zero value for 14 days or more, or if it has a non-zero value and fewer than 5 players are Festive, then any player CAN flip it to 0 by announcement. A Festive person is a person whose Laudability is greater than or equal to Agora's Festivity. An N-Festive person is a person who would be Festive, were Agora's Festivity N. For any integer N greater than Agora's Festivity, an N-Festive player CAN flip Agora's Festivity to N with 4 support from other N-Festive players, unless Agora's Festivity has had a value greater than or equal to N in the past 21 days. History: Enacted by P7833 'Agoran Festivals' (ais523), 05 Dec 2016 Amended(1) by P7888 'BILLY MAYS HERE' (o, R. Lee), 26 Sep 2017 Amended(2) by P8163 'Holey Loops, Batman!' (Kate), 22 Feb 2019 Amended(3) by cleaning (Janet), 14 Sep 2019 Amended(4) by P8241 'Secured switches (v2.0)' (Janet, Falsifian), 18 Sep 2019 Power changed from 2.1 to 3.1 by P8569 'Fixing Festivals' (Janet, Aris, Murphy), 14 Jun 2021 Amended(5) by P8634 'Laudability' (Janet), 24 Dec 2021 Amended(6) by P8657 'Shrodinger's report' (Murphy), 03 Apr 2022 Amended(7) by cleaning (4st), 22 Nov 2023 Amended(8) by P9189 'Did you get a permit for that party?' (Janet, Kate), 20 Oct 2024 Amended(9) by P9190 'If there exists a party' (Janet, Kate), 20 Oct 2024 Annotations: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rule 2481/9 (Power=3.1) Festival Restrictions While Agora's Festivity is non-zero, the following apply: 1. Rules to the contrary notwithstanding, non-Festive players CANNOT support/be a supporter for tabled action intents; 2. Quorum for Agoran Decisions is equal to half the number of Festive players, rounded up; 3. Each Festive player has the maximum possible voting strength. Each person who is not a Festive player has the minimum possible voting strength. Rules to the contrary notwithstanding, no modifications to voting strength (other than defining the maximum and minimum) are applied by any other Rule. While Agora's Festivity is zero, the paragraphs above have no effect and are ignored. History: Enacted by P7833 'Agoran Festivals' (ais523), 05 Dec 2016 Amended(1) by R2430, 24 May 2017 Amended(2) by P8297 'Imminent Failure' (Aris), 29 Jan 2020 Amended(3) by P8510 'Festival Peending' (Baron von Vanderham, Janet, Trigon), 28 Oct 2020 Power changed from 2.1 to 3.1 by P8569 'Fixing Festivals' (Janet, Aris, Murphy), 14 Jun 2021 Amended(4) by P8569 'Fixing Festivals' (Janet, Aris, Murphy), 14 Jun 2021 Amended(5) by P8629 'Independence Day' (G., Gaelan, Telna, nix, Madrid, cuddlybanana, Janet), 18 Oct 2021 Amended(6) by P8660 'The End of Sets' (nix, G., Janet, snail), 03 Apr 2022 Amended(7) by R2658, 09 Jun 2022 Amended(8) by P9097 'Festival strength restrictions' (Janet), 02 May 2024 Amended(9) by P9189 'Did you get a permit for that party?' (Janet, Kate), 20 Oct 2024 Annotations: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rule 649/44 (Power=1.5) Patent Titles A Patent Title is a legal title held by an entity in recognition of eir distinction. The Herald is an office; its holder is responsible for tracking Patent Titles in eir monthly report. Awarding or revoking a Patent Title is secured at power 1. A person permitted and enabled to award (revoke) a Patent Title SHALL do so in a timely fashion after the conditions authorizing em to do so are announced, unless there is an open judicial case contesting the validity of those conditions. The Herald CAN award a specified Patent Title to a specified player with 2 Agoran consent. Any player CAN award a specified Patent Title to a specified player, as authorized by the Herald's Administrative Regulations. History: Enacted by P649 (Wes), around 22 Oct 1993 Amended(1) by P1334, 22 Nov 1994 Amended(2) by P1681, 22 Aug 1995 Amended(3) by P2532, 10 Mar 1996 Amended(4) by P2693, 03 Oct 1996 Amended(5) by P2807 (Andre), 08 Feb 1997 Amended(6) by P3445 (General Chaos), 26 Mar 1997 Amended(7) by P3488 (Zefram), 19 May 1997 Amended(8) by P3849 'Raus mit der Zeitgeist u. a.' (Vlad), 06 Apr 1999 Amended(9) by P3860 'Amend rule 649' (Peekee), 12 May 1999 Amended(10) by P3914 'The Registrar's Crayons' (Mischief), 19 Sep 1999 Amended(11) by P3916 'Revised Patent Titles' (harvel), 27 Sep 1999 Amended(12) by P3968 'Cleanup with Quantifier Changes' (harvel), 04 Feb 2000 Amended(13) by P4002 'Officer Reform' (harvel), 08 May 2000 Amended(14) by P4110 'Patent Titles Aren't Property!' (Ziggy), 13 Feb 2001 Amended(15) by P4147 'What is Public?' (Wes), 13 May 2001 Amended(16) by P4497 'ANF bugfixes' (Steve), 13 May 2003 Amended(17) by P4691 'Switch Reform' (root), 18 Apr 2005 Amended(18) by P4824 'Aragon' (Maud, Manu), 17 Jul 2005 Amended(19) by P4865 'The Lion Rampant Repeals' (G.), 27 Aug 2006 Amended(20) by P5036 'refactor the Herald' (Zefram), 28 Jun 2007 Amended(21) by P5084 'platonic patent titles' [disi.] (Zefram), 01 Aug 2007 Amended(22) by P5112 'The org chart is not flat' (Murphy), 02 Aug 2007 Amended(23) by P5123 'put herald in eir place' (Zefram), 13 Aug 2007 Amended(24) by P5237 'Comprehensive objective reporting' [disi.] (AFO), 03 Oct 2007 Amended(25) by P5239 'Official frequencies' (AFO), 03 Oct 2007 Amended(26) by P5341 'Patent Pragmatism' (G.), 08 Dec 2007 Amended(27) by P5412 'More permanent patent titles' (woggle), 26 Jan 2008 Power changed from 1 to 1.5 by P5437 'Patent Standards' (G.), 13 Feb 2008 Amended(28) by P5437 'Patent Standards' (G.), 13 Feb 2008 Amended(29) by P6047 'Oracu-proposal' (omd), 13 Jan 2009 Amended(30) by P6175 'All Offices Are Important' (Yally), 07 Apr 2009 Amended(31) by cleaning (Wooble), 13 Apr 2009 Amended(32) by P6424 'Patent Title Cleanup' (Walker), 16 Aug 2009 Amended(33) by P7050 'No more warp drive' (omd), 16 May 2011 Amended(34) by P7315 'Power of the Herald' (omd), 16 Oct 2012 Amended(35) by P7420 'We don't need to be that idiosyncratic un-derp version' (omd), 27 May 2013 Amended(36) by P7470 'Finish d-ASAP'ing' [disi.] (woggle), 17 Jun 2013 Amended(37) by P7621 'Further Patent Cleanup' (G.), 23 Feb 2014 Amended(38) by P7755 'Patenting II' (G.), 30 Jun 2015 Amended(39) by P8011 'Patent Depowering' (G.), 24 Feb 2018 Amended(40) by P8099 'Patent Petitions' (Aris), 01 Oct 2018 Amended(41) by P8221 'Usage de-capitalization' (Janet, Aris), 05 Sep 2019 Amended(42) by P8302 'Generic Petitions' (Aris), 29 Jan 2020 Amended(43) by P8449 'Simpler Heraldry' (Aris, Alexis, Janet, Publius Scribonious Scholasticus), 30 Jun 2020 Amended(44) by P8531 'Patent Title Restoration v2' (Janet), 26 Jan 2021 Annotations: CFJ 1525 (called 15 Nov 2004): If a patent title is defined by the rules, and previously the rules defined a patent title with the same spelling but a different award condition, the two are the same patent title. CFJ 1592 (called 01 Dec 2006): A patent title, once borne, is borne until explicitly revoked, even if the rule defining the patent title is repealed or the patent title was never defined by a rule. CFJ 1731 (called 23 Aug 2007): It is possible for an entity {a person at the time of CFJ 1731} to bear more than one instance of a patent title simultaneously. CFJ 1591 (called 01 Dec 2006): Where a person bears the patent title X, and X is not also defined by the rules to have some special meaning, it is correct to say that that person "is an X". ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rule 2415/1 (Power=1.5) Badges A Badge is any patent title with the word 'badge' as part of its name. A badge SHOULD be used to award multiple persons for participating in specific event of note within Agora. Any player CAN award a badge that does not yet exist to three or more persons simultaneously, with Agoran consent. The Herald CAN award an existing badge to persons without objection. History: Enacted by P7516 'Badges Badges Badges Badges' (G.), 19 Jul 2013 Amended(1) by P8221 'Usage de-capitalization' (Janet, Aris), 05 Sep 2019 Annotations: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rule 1367/26 (Power=2) Degrees Certain patent titles are known as degrees. The degrees are - Associate of Nomic Art (A.N.A.) - Associate of Nomic (A.N.) - Juris Doctorate of Nomic (J.N.) - Baccalaureate of Nomic Art (B.N.A.) - Baccalaureate of Nomic (B.N.) - Magisteriate of Nomic Art (M.N.A.) - Magisteriate of Nomic (M.N.) - Doctorate of Nomic Art (D.N.Art.) - Doctorate of Nomic History (D.N.Hist.) - Doctorate of Nomic Law (D.N.Law.) - Doctorate of Nomic Science (D.N.Sci.) - Doctorate of Nomic Philosophy (D.N.Phil.) There are four classes of degrees, ranked in ascending order of merit: Associate degrees (A.N.A. and A.N.), Baccalaureate degrees (J.N through B.N.), Magisteriate degrees (M.N.A and M.N), and Doctorate degrees (D.N.Art. through D.N.Phil.). A specified degree CAN be awarded by any player other than the awardee, with 2 Agoran consent. It SHOULD only be awarded for the publication of an original thesis of scholarly worth (including responses to peer-review), published with explicit intent to qualify for a degree. The Herald SHOULD coordinate the peer-review process and the awarding of degrees. Degrees SHOULD be awarded according to the extent to which the thesis contributes to Nomic culture or thought: Associate degrees for an appreciable contribution, Baccalaureate degrees for a substantial contribution, Magisteriate degrees for a remarkable contribution, and Doctorate degrees for an exceptional contribution. Any degree at the Doctorate level SHOULD take into account the awardee's academic history and participation in Agora over time. Theses for Art degrees SHOULD demonstrate substantial creativity and need not be in written form. Theses for all other degrees SHOULD demonstrate substantial research or analysis. J.N. and D.N.Law are appropriate for high-quality legal analysis, of the sort typical to CFJs, but exceeding an ordinary CFJ in depth. The D.N.Hist. degree is appropriate for historical research, especially when it presents a narrative that educates Agorans about the events of the past. The D.N.Sci. degree is appropriate for theses that demonstrate concrete or scientific thinking, whereas the D.N.Phil. is appropriate for theses that demonstrate abstract or philosophical thinking. History: Enacted by P1367, 05 Jan 1995 Infected and amended(1) by R1454, 12 Feb 1996 Amended(2) by P3452 (Steve), 07 Apr 1997 Amended(3) by P3741 'Plots' (Murphy), 08 May 1998 Amended(4) by P3889 'Minor Changes I' (harvel), 09 Aug 1999 Amended(5) by P4002 'Officer Reform' (harvel), 08 May 2000 Amended(6) by P4110 'Patent Titles Aren't Property!' (Ziggy), 13 Feb 2001 Amended(7) by P4865 'The Lion Rampant Repeals' (G.), 27 Aug 2006 Amended(8) by P5085 'degrees by proposal' (Zefram), 01 Aug 2007 Power changed from 1 to 1.5 by P5085 'degrees by proposal' (Zefram), 01 Aug 2007 Amended(9) by P5243 'Spelling fix' [disi.] (root), 07 Oct 2007 Amended(10) by P5276 'Generalize security' (Murphy, Pavitra, Zefram), 07 Nov 2007 Amended(11) by P5437 'Patent Standards' (G.), 13 Feb 2008 Power changed from 1.5 to 1 by P5947 'Balance of Power' (ais523), 15 Nov 2008 Amended(12) by P5955 'Fix Balance of Power' [disi.] (ais523, Mischief, Murphy), 18 Nov 2008 Amended(13) by P6257 'Thesis votes' (Alexis), 11 May 2009 Amended(14) by P6624 'fix hypothetical situations' [green] (Murphy), 20 Feb 2010 Amended(15) by P6671 'Better Degree Awarding' [red, disi.] (Yally), 22 Mar 2010 Power changed from 1 to 3 by P6717 'Simplify Degrees' [purple] (Alexis), 04 May 2010 Amended(16) by SLR ratification, 27 Aug 2010 Amended(17) by P7420 'We don't need to be that idiosyncratic un-derp version' (omd), 27 May 2013 Amended(18) by P7591 'Conflicts of Interest' (Alexis), 14 Sep 2013 Amended(19) by P7620 'Fire the Full Committee' (omd), 24 Jan 2014 Amended(20) by P8211 'Law School' (G.), 23 Jul 2019 Amended(21) by P8221 'Usage de-capitalization' (Janet, Aris), 05 Sep 2019 Power changed from 3 to 2 by P8271 'Doctorate expectations' (G.), 11 Nov 2019 Amended(22) by P8271 'Doctorate expectations' (G.), 11 Nov 2019 Amended(23) by P8305 'Keeping Up With the Times' (Alexis), 29 Jan 2020 Amended(24) by P8409 'College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences' (Aris), 14 Jun 2020 Amended(25) by cleaning (Aris), 08 Aug 2020 Amended(26) by P8582 'The Artistry Lies in the Art' (Aris), 23 Jun 2021 Annotations: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rule 2231/7 (Power=3) Order of the Hero of Agora Nomic Heroic titles are Agora's premier patent titles of distinction, and CAN be awarded to persons for meritorious service only by a proposal of power 3 or greater, which SHOULD explain why those persons are qualified. Bearers of heroic titles (Heroes) constitute the Order of the Hero of Agora Nomic. The Heroic titles in decreasing precedence are: Grand Hero of Agora Nomic (GHAN) -- This title may be awarded to any person obviously and directly responsible for the existence of Agora and/or Nomic in general. As this title is the highest honour that Agora may bestow, a Bearer of this title OUGHT to be treated right good forever. Hero of Agora Nomic (HAN) -- This title may be awarded to any person for outstanding meritorious service to Agora above and beyond the call of duty. History: Enacted by P6016 'Order of the Hero' (OscarMeyr), 18 Dec 2008 Amended(1) by cleaning (Murphy), 16 Aug 2009 Amended(2) by P6571 'This gets on my nerves' [green] (ais523), 28 Nov 2009 Power changed from 2 to 3 by P6626 'Standards of heroism' [green] (Murphy), 20 Feb 2010 Amended(3) by P6626 'Standards of heroism' [green] (Murphy), 20 Feb 2010 Amended(4) by P7621 'Further Patent Cleanup' (G.), 23 Feb 2014 Amended(5) by P7647 'formatting/misc fixes' (omd), 03 Jun 2014 Amended(6) by P7888 'BILLY MAYS HERE' (o, R. Lee), 26 Sep 2017 Amended(7) by P8545 'Uncanny Fixes' (Aris, Murphy), 10 Mar 2021 Annotations: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rule 2581/6 (Power=1) Official Patent Titles The following Patent Titles CAN be awarded by the indicated Officers with 2 Agoran consent. In order to balance the history, dignity, spontaneity, and serendipity of the awards, the Herald, Speaker, and Prime Minister are STRONGLY ENCOURAGED to provide their support or objections, and reasons for doing so, reasonably quickly after any such intents are announced. - Tapecutter, awardable by the Rulekeepor to the author of an adopted proposal that significantly reduces, streamlines, or simplifies the ruleset. - Scamster, awardable by the Referee to any player who has shown great enthusiasm, persistence, or skill in the perpetrating of scams without breaking any Rules. - Hard Labor, awardable by the ADoP to any player who holds 2+ offices for 3+ continuous months while performing eir official duties in a timely and conscientious manner that promotes the gameplay of the office. - MacGyver, awardable by the Assessor to the author of an adopted proposal that fixes serious bugs in the ruleset, especially if the fix uses existing rules text in novel and unexpected ways, or to a judge for similarly using rules text to resolve an apparent bug without the need for legislative action. - Bard, by Speaker the award should given be, to persons who publish repeated creative wit or poetry. - Helping Hand, awardable by any Officer to any person not holding that office who puts substantial labor into aiding in the duties of that office, without consideration of any other reward they might receive. - Tiger Team, awardable by any Officer to any player who points out a usable rules bug that would directly provide em with a strong game advantage if e used it, but proposes a fix without attempting to use the bug. - Terms of Service, awardable by the Notary to any player who creates multiple Contracts that achieve fun gameplay and significantly impacts Agora as a whole The Herald is also ENCOURAGED to proactively recommend or, as otherwise permitted, award these titles when appropriate, especially if the potential awardee is the officer emself. History: Enacted by P8109 'Patent Diversity' (G.), 27 Oct 2018 Amended(1) by P8171 'The Tiger Team' (G.), 27 Apr 2019 Amended(2) by P8221 'Usage de-capitalization' (Janet, Aris), 05 Sep 2019 Amended(3) by P8411 'Contract Lawyers' (R. Lee), 14 Jun 2020 Amended(4) by P8532 'Turn Undead v2' (G.), 03 Feb 2021 Amended(5) by P8872 'Anti-Capitalists Dream of Stamp Collecting' (nix, G., Janet, Shy Owl), 11 Dec 2022 Amended(6) by cleaning (Kate), 18 Sep 2023 Annotations: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rule 2582/4 (Power=1) Annual Awards April is hereby designated Awards Month. The following Patent Titles CAN be awarded by the indicated Officers with 2 Agoran consent. The Patent Titles SHOULD be awarded during Awards Month, and the award SHOULD be made to commemorate acts performed in the previous Agoran year. The full name of each awarded Patent Title is [Title Below] NNNN, where NNNN is the year each act was performed. The Herald SHALL announce it is Awards Month in an officially timely fashion after it begins. E SHOULD petition officers to award their awards if they have not done so by the end of Awards Month. Each indicated Officer SHOULD award these titles to 1-2 persons each year, and SHOULD solicit an open call for nominations and discussion before making these awards. The Herald SHALL note any additional information indicated below as part of eir report of Patent Titles. - Silver Quill, awardable by the Promotor to the author of a proposal of outstanding merit and influence on the game, or to a coauthor, although e SHOULD only do so if it is generally agreed that that coauthor contributed more to that proposal than the person who submitted it (additional information: ID number of the proposal). - Wooden Gavel, awardable by the Arbitor to the judge of a CFJ or series of CFJs with a strong and foundational impact on the judicial precedents of Agora (additional information: ID numbers of the judgements). - Golden Glove, awardable by the Tailor to the player who made the most interesting, successful, and/or competitive series of moves while attempting to win or get substantially ahead in the game. - Employee of the Year, awardable by the ADoP to the persons who put the most persistent hard labor into keeping the game going through the performance of Officers' duties (additional information: offices held by the awardee during that year). History: Enacted by P8109 'Patent Diversity' (G.), 27 Oct 2018 Amended(1) by P8221 'Usage de-capitalization' (Janet, Aris), 05 Sep 2019 Amended(2) by P8574 'mending the quill' (Trigon, Janet, Aris), 23 Jun 2021 Amended(3) by P8968 'April Awards Extension' (snail, nix, Aris, G.), 19 May 2023 Amended(4) by cleaning (kiako), 02 Mar 2024 Annotations: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ======================================================================== Leaders Agora has a good few leaders, most of which are nothing more than sinecures. This section isn't all that important. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rule 103/31 (Power=2) The Speaker The Speaker is an imposed office and the figurehead leader of Agora. The player or players who have most recently won the game are called Laureled. If at any time the office of Speaker is vacant, or when one or more players win Agora, then the Prime Minister CAN once appoint a Laureled player to the office of Speaker by announcement. Whenever the Prime Minister CAN appoint a Laureled player to the office of Speaker, e SHALL do so in a timely fashion, except that the Prime Minister MAY defer appointing a new Speaker while there is pending one or more open CFJs that could plausibly determine or affect the question of whether a player is Laureled. If the Prime Minister is emself Laureled, eir power to appoint a Speaker continues for the entirety of a message in which e resigns as Prime Minister, and if e is the only Laureled player, e CAN void that power, and thereby discharge the obligation to use it, by announcing that e declines to take the office. If the office of Speaker has been held continuously by the same person for the past 90+ days, then any player CAN appoint another player to the office with support. History: Initial immutable rule 103, Agora's birth Mutated from MI=unanimity to MI=3 by P1481, 15 Mar 1995 Amended(1) by P3829 'Clearing the ground' (Steve), 08 Feb 1999 Retitled by P4944 'allow Speaker deregistration' (Zefram), 03 May 2007 Amended(2) by P4944 'allow Speaker deregistration' (Zefram), 03 May 2007 Retitled by P5257 'Ministers Without Portfolio' (AFO), 27 Oct 2007 Amended(3) by P5257 'Ministers Without Portfolio' (AFO), 27 Oct 2007 Amended(4) by P5407 'Re-officiating the speaker' (root), 22 Jan 2008 Power changed from 3 to 1 by P5947 'Balance of Power' (ais523), 15 Nov 2008 Amended(5) by P6026 'Cleanup of Power=1 definitions' (Murphy), 22 Dec 2008 Amended(6) by P6490 'Mutinous Military' (Alexis), 18 Sep 2009 Power changed from 1 to 2 by P6821 'Relisting' [purple] (G., ais523), 04 Sep 2010 Amended(7) by P6821 'Relisting' [purple] (G., ais523), 04 Sep 2010 Retitled by P6961 '52-pickup v2' (G.), 03 Mar 2011 Amended(8) by P6961 '52-pickup v2' (G.), 03 Mar 2011 Amended(9) by P7006 'Constant Speakership' (Walker), 20 Apr 2011 Amended(10) by P7084 'I see nothing wrong with letting one imaginary person act on behalf of another imaginary person' (omd), 23 Jul 2011 Amended(11) by P7323 'Deprezzing' (the Warrigal), 11 Jan 2013 Amended(12) by P7336 'Down with Rubles' (woggle), 27 Mar 2013 Amended(13) by P7340 'The Steward Sweeps' (G.), 27 Mar 2013 Amended(14) by P7375 'Ministry' (G.), 20 Apr 2013 Amended(15) by P7465 (Walker), 17 Jun 2013 Amended(16) by P7486 'Clearing Up' [disi.] (Alexis), 09 Jul 2013 Amended(17) by P7610 'Low-hanging Fruit' (G.), 22 Dec 2013 Amended(18) by P7631 'Missing Vote' (Alexis), 14 Apr 2014 Amended(19) by P7633 'Yes, Prime Minister' (Alexis), 01 May 2014 Amended(20) by P7650 'An Orderly Transition' (Alexis, G.), 03 Jun 2014 Amended(21) by P7690 'Speaker/Prime Minister incompatibility' (aranea), 24 Sep 2014 Amended(22) by P7739 'Succession' (G.), 02 May 2015 Amended(23) by P7824 'Office Incompatibilities' (aranea, ais523), 07 Nov 2016 Amended(24) by P7885 'Restraining Bolt' (o, R. Lee, Ørjan), 26 Sep 2017 Amended(25) by P8117 'Fix for Uncertain Laurelings' (D. Margaux, Kate), 12 Nov 2018 Amended(26) by P8221 'Usage de-capitalization' (Janet, Aris), 05 Sep 2019 Amended(27) by P8291 'Interesting Chambers v3.1' (Bernie, Trigon, Aris, Gaelan, G., Janet, Kate), 29 Jan 2020 Amended(28) by P8540 'Strengthening Extra Votes v2.1' (nix, Aris, Janet), 11 Feb 2021 Amended(29) by P8708 'Has Beens' (nix, snail, G., Madrid, 4st, Janet), 17 Jul 2022 Amended(30) by P8976 'Ruleset convergance' (Janet), 25 May 2023 Amended(31) by P9132 'Fashionable Manners' (Mischief, Janet), 06 Jul 2024 Annotations: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rule 104/0 (Power=3) First Speaker The Speaker for the first game shall be Michael Norrish. History: Initial immutable rule 104, Agora's birth Mutated from MI=unanimity to MI=3 by P1482, 15 Mar 1995 Annotations: CFJ 1534 (called 08 Mar 2005): This does not mean that Michael Norrish necessarily fills the position of Speaker at the present time. CFJ 2154 (called 08 Sep 2008): The Speaker for the first game shall be Michael Norrish. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rule 2423/6 (Power=2) First Among Equals The Prime Minister is an office. The Prime Minister is elected by the players of Agora primarily on account of not being the other person. The Prime Minister SHOULD ensure that Agoran affairs proceed smoothly. History: Enacted by P7633 'Yes, Prime Minister' (Alexis), 01 May 2014 Amended(1) by P7816 'Voting Strength Fix (PENDING, BUGGY)' (Alexis, o, aranea), 28 Oct 2016 Amended(2) by P7817 'Prime Minister Voting Strength' (aranea), 28 Oct 2016 Amended(3) by P7831 'Vigilante Justice' (Alexis), 05 Dec 2016 Amended(4) by cleaning (Murphy), 03 Nov 2019 Amended(5) by P8291 'Interesting Chambers v3.1' (Bernie, Trigon, Aris, Gaelan, G., Janet, Kate), 29 Jan 2020 Amended(6) by P8936 'Oh come on guys folks' (4st), 02 Apr 2023 Annotations: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rule 2463/3 (Power=2) Motion of No Confidence Any player can cause the office of Prime Minister to become vacant with Agoran consent by publishing a message with the character string "MOTION OF NO CONFIDENCE" in the subject line. Motions of confidence SHOULD used whenever Agorans want to shake things up, rather than as a personal judgement of the Prime Minister. History: Enacted by P7800 'Motion of No Confidence' (Henri), 19 Jul 2016 Amended(1) by P8221 'Usage de-capitalization' (Janet, Aris), 05 Sep 2019 Amended(2) by P8434 'Majoritarian Confidence' (Aris), 18 Jun 2020 Amended(3) by P8435 'No Confidence Isn't Personal' (Aris), 18 Jun 2020 Power changed from 1 to 2 by P9035 'Unbreaking Motions' (snail, 4st), 10 Dec 2023 Annotations: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rule 2451/12 (Power=2) Executive Orders Once per week, except as otherwise forbidden by this rule, the current Prime Minister CAN issue a Cabinet Order by announcement to perform the action(s) authorized by that Order. Each Cabinet Order is associated with an office. The current Prime Minister CANNOT issue more than one Cabinet Order associated with the same office more than once in the same month, nor can e issue a Cabinet Order associated with a vacant office. The available Cabinet Orders are: - Certiorari (Arbitor): The Prime Minister assigns emself as judge of a specified open case. - Dive (Referee): The Prime Minister levies a fine of 2 on a specified player. Rules to the contrary notwithstanding, the reason for the fine MAY be any grievance held by the Prime Minister, not necessarily a violation of the rules, against the person to whom the fine is levied. - Manifesto (Promotor): The Prime Minister distributes a specified proposal in the Proposal Pool. History: Enacted by P7764 'Prime Ministerial Perks' (Alexis), 24 Jul 2015 Amended(1) by P7829 'Rename Fix' (Alexis), 07 Nov 2016 Amended(2) by P7831 'Vigilante Justice' (Alexis), 05 Dec 2016 Amended(3) by P7860 'Cards are power 1.7' (Quazie), 27 Jun 2017 Amended(4) by P7885 'Restraining Bolt' (o, R. Lee, Ørjan), 26 Sep 2017 Power changed from 1.7 to 2.0 by P7964 'Referee Reform and Card Appealability' (R. Lee), 07 Nov 2017 Amended(5) by P7964 'Referee Reform and Card Appealability' (R. Lee), 07 Nov 2017 Amended(6) by P8029 'Blots v1.0' (G., Aris), 30 Mar 2018 Amended(7) by P8235 'Unified fine creation syntax' (Janet), 18 Sep 2019 Amended(8) by cleaning (Murphy), 03 Nov 2019 Amended(9) by P8923 'Department of Defense' (G.), 19 Mar 2023 Amended(10) by P8955 'Disassembling the Device' (snail), 23 Apr 2023 Amended(11) by P9051 'A Mossy Cabinet' (snail), 28 Jan 2024 Amended(12) by P9140 'Whoops, missed one' (Quadrantal, Janet), 13 Jul 2024 Annotations: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rule 2575/3 (Power=3) The Distributor The Distributor is an imposed office whose holder is generally responsible for the management of the primary Agoran fora. The holder CANNOT be changed except without objection or by proposal. Rules to the contrary notwithstanding, the Distributor CANNOT deregister or be deregistered. History: Enacted by P8051 'Zombie Overhaul v1.0' (G., Aris), 14 Jun 2018 Amended(1) by P8221 'Usage de-capitalization' (Janet, Aris), 05 Sep 2019 Amended(2) by P8459 'Talismans' (Janet, nix, Falsifian, G.), 08 Jul 2020 Amended(3) by P8546 'Talisn't' (G.), 10 Mar 2021 Annotations: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ======================================================================== Agoran Culture Nothing in here is all that important. Mostly describes holidays and tournaments, and joke rules. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rule 2327/3 (Power=1) Read the Ruleset Week The first Agoran week each year which falls entirely in February is Read the Ruleset Week. Agorans are encouraged to read the ruleset during Read the Ruleset Week. History: Enacted by P6973 'I miss RtRW' (Murphy), 30 Mar 2011 Amended(1) by P6995 'Ugliest rule text ever' (omd, harvel), 10 Apr 2011 Amended(2) by P8329 'RtRW Reschedule' (Alexis), 24 Feb 2020 Amended(3) by P8357 'Homework extension fail' (G.), 04 Apr 2020 Annotations: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rule 2686/0 (Power=1.0) Ratify the Ruleset Week The Agoran week each year containing the Ides of March is Ratify the Ruleset Week. During Ratify the Ruleset Week, the Rulekeepor SHALL submit a proposal to ratify a purported ruleset published since the last time the ruleset was ratified. History: Enacted by P9038 'Ratify the Ruleset Week' (Murphy), 10 Dec 2023 Annotations: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rule 1727/21 (Power=1) Happy Birthday WHEREAS, in June 1993, the world's only MUD-based nomic, Nomic World, had recently collapsed; yet, many of its players enjoyed nomic and did not wish to forego such a noble pursuit; And WHEREAS, Originator Chuck Carroll therefore composed an Initial Ruleset for an email nomic, based on the Initial Rulesets of Peter Suber, inventor of Nomic, and on the Rulesets of Nomic World and other nomics, And WHEREAS, a nomic thus rose like a phoenix from the ashes of Nomic World, played on the mailing list originally set up for discussion of Nomic World, and coming into existence at June 30, 1993, 00:04:30 GMT +1200, with a message sent by FIRST SPEAKER Michael Norrish, which read, in part, "I see no reason to let this get bogged down; there are no precedents or rules that cover this situation, so I think we may as well begin directly.... Proposals for new rules are invited. In accordance with the rules, these will be published, numbered and distributed by me at my earliest convenience." And WHEREAS, this nomic began as a humble and nameless nomic, known unofficially as yoyo, after the mailing list it was played on, until its Players, much later, gave it its OFFICIAL NAME of Agora, And WHEREAS, Agora has now become the wisest, noblest, eldest, and most interesting of all active email nomics, due to the hard work and diligence of Agorans as well as the frequent advice of Agoraphobes, And WHEREAS, Agorans desire to joyously commemorate Agora's founding, BE IT THEREFORE RESOLVED that Agora's Birthday is defined to be the entire day of June 30, GMT +1200, of each year. History: Enacted by P3513 (Chuck), 16 Jun 1997 Amended(1) by P3530 (Chuck), 30 Jun 1997 Amended(2) by P3533 (General Chaos), 15 Jul 1997 Amended(3) by P3543 (Harlequin), 17 Aug 1997 Amended(4) by P3897 'A Separation of Money but not of Powers' (harvel), 27 Aug 1999 Amended(5) by P3915 'General Cleanup' (harvel), 27 Sep 1999 Amended(6) by P3940 'Bookkeeping Reduction' (Blob), 15 Nov 1999 Amended(7) by P4018 'Property and Democracy' (Kelly), 21 Jun 2000 Amended(8) by P4099 'Spelling Fixes, Part 1 of 2' (Murphy), 15 Jan 2001 Amended(9) by P4147 'What is Public?' (Wes), 13 May 2001 Amended(10) by P4159 'Applications Revisited' (Kelly), 05 Jun 2001 Amended(11) by P4367 'Scaling Down' (Steve), 23 Aug 2002 Amended(12) by P4376 'Fix Birthday Gifts (v1.1)' (Steve), 06 Sep 2002 Amended(13) by P4486 'Of what worth honor?' (Michael), 24 Apr 2003 Amended(14) by P4743 'Contracts' (Manu), 05 May 2005 Amended(15) by P4839 'Odds and Ends' (G.), 02 Oct 2005 Amended(16) by P4866 'Constitutional Repeals 2.0' (G.), 27 Aug 2006 Amended(17) by P4880 'Finish Repealing Boons' (Murphy), 22 Jan 2007 Amended(18) by P4887 'Periodic Spell Check' (Murphy), 22 Jan 2007 Amended(19) by P5364 'A very merry unbirthday to you' (Murphy), 20 Dec 2007 Amended(20) by P7610 'Low-hanging Fruit' (G.), 22 Dec 2013 Amended(21) by R2430, 24 May 2017 Annotations: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rule 2464/8 (Power=1) Tournaments A Tournament is a sub-game of Agora specifically sanctioned to be initiated as a tournament by the Rules. Each time that one or more winners of a tournament are determined before it concludes, that person or those persons win the game. A tournament concludes when its regulations state that it concludes. Additionally, if it has not previously concluded, a tournament concludes 3 months after its initiation. A Tournament is governed by a set of regulations, created in accordance with its parent rule, which have binding control over those who freely consent to oversee or participate in the tournament and over the tournament itself. When a tournament is initiated, its governing regulations are enacted. Once the tournament is concluded, these regulations cease to have any effect, and CAN be repealed by any player by announcement. A Tournament's regulations collectively have Mint Authority. Unless otherwise specified by the tournament's regulations, the gamemaster of a tournament is the person who initiated it. A tournament's regulations can provide for the enactment, amendment, and repeal of regulations for that tournament; if the regulations are silent, the gamemaster CAN, with 2 Agoran consent, enact, amend, or repeal such regulations. Any regulations so enacted are deemed to be regulations of the same tournament. History: Enacted by P7809 'Quill and Tournaments' (G.), 11 Sep 2016 Amended(1) by P7865 'Regulations v4' (Aris, o, nix, ais523), 27 Jun 2017 Amended(2) by P7888 'BILLY MAYS HERE' (o, R. Lee), 26 Sep 2017 Amended(3) by P8032 'Free Tournaments' (G.), 06 Apr 2018 Amended(4) by P8076 'Regulation Patches' (Aris, G.), 26 Jul 2018 Amended(5) by P8364 'Mint Regulations' (Aris), 04 Apr 2020 Amended(6) by P8612 'Tournament Conclusion Fixes v2' (Janet), 18 Oct 2021 Amended(7) by P8645 'Some RTRW Clean-Ups' (ATMunn, nix), 15 Mar 2022 Amended(8) by P9226 'Starting of Tournaments and Amendment of Regulations Act' (Janet, Kate), 03 May 2025 Annotations: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rule 2566/2 (Power=1) Free Tournaments A player who is not the gamemaster of an existing tournament CAN initiate a sanctioned tournament with a specified set of regulations with 2 Agoran consent. A tournament created using this method is called a Free Tournament. A free tournament CAN be concluded with no winner without 3 objections. Tournaments SHOULD only be concluded in this manner if it is clear that its regulations are malformed or contrary to the tournament's intent or that it is IMPOSSIBLE for any player to win the tournament. History: Enacted by P8032 'Free Tournaments' (G.), 06 Apr 2018 Amended(1) by P8221 'Usage de-capitalization' (Janet, Aris), 05 Sep 2019 Amended(2) by P8545 'Uncanny Fixes' (Aris, Murphy), 10 Mar 2021 Annotations: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rule 2495/4 (Power=1) The Birthday Tournament In a timely fashion after the start of June 1 of each year, the Herald SHALL propose a set of Regulations governing a Birthday Tournament for that year; the Herald CAN also delegate the responsibility for creating or running the tournament to another player, with that player's consent, by announcement. The Birthday Tournament's regulations SHOULD be such that all persons who choose to participate have a fair chance of winning the tournament (according to its regulations), and a winner SHOULD be expected within 2-3 weeks following the tournament's initiation. After adequate time for discussion of the Birthday Tournament's regulations, the Herald (or delegate) CAN initiate a sanctioned tournament, specifying a finalized set of governing regulations, without 3 objections. These regulations may thereafter be amended only by the Herald or eir designee Without 3 Objections. The initiation SHOULD be timed to coincide with Agora's Birthday. History: Enacted by P7865 'Regulations v4' (Aris, o, nix, ais523), 27 Jun 2017 Amended(1) by P7885 'Restraining Bolt' (o, R. Lee, Ørjan), 26 Sep 2017 Amended(2) by P8076 'Regulation Patches' (Aris, G.), 26 Jul 2018 Amended(3) by P8645 'Some RTRW Clean-Ups' (ATMunn, nix), 15 Mar 2022 Amended(4) by P9226 'Starting of Tournaments and Amendment of Regulations Act' (Janet, Kate), 03 May 2025 Annotations: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rule 1769/15 (Power=3) Holidays The period each year from midnight GMT on the morning of 24 December to the beginning of the first Agoran week to begin after 2 January is a Holiday. The week that contains the beginning of Agora's Birthday, together with the following week, is a Holiday. If a person breaks a Rule by missing a deadline that occurs during a Holiday, punishment is generally not appropriate. History: Enacted by P3679 'Holidays' (General Chaos), 30 Jan 1998 Amended(1) by P4036 '72 hours for Holidays' (Ørjan), 07 Aug 2000 Amended(2) by P01-003 (Steve), 02 Feb 2001 Amended(3) by P4866 'Constitutional Repeals 2.0' (G.), 27 Aug 2006 Amended(4) by P5077 'MMI in practice' (Murphy), 18 Jul 2007 Amended(5) by P5086 'judicial reform' (Zefram), 01 Aug 2007 Amended(6) by P5484 'Symmetric holidays' [disi.] (Murphy), 02 Apr 2008 Amended(7) by P5535 'These things are not just for players' (Murphy), 07 Jun 2008 Power changed from 2 to 3 by P5701 'Working Holidays' (ais523), 01 Oct 2008 Amended(8) by P6607 'Festive Fix' [red, disi.] (Alexis), 01 Feb 2010 Amended(9) by SLR ratification, 27 Aug 2010 Amended(10) by P7050 'No more warp drive' (omd), 16 May 2011 Amended(11) by P7150 'Whose fault is it, anyway?' (Murphy), 25 Jan 2012 Amended(12) by P7151 'This is not a footnote' (Murphy), 25 Jan 2012 Amended(13) by P7262 'Fix' (omd), 07 Jul 2012 Amended(14) by P7610 'Low-hanging Fruit' (G.), 22 Dec 2013 Amended(15) by P7647 'formatting/misc fixes' (omd), 03 Jun 2014 Annotations: CFJ 1434 (called 24 Jan 2003): The registration of a player is an event for the purposes of Rule 1769. CFJ 1434 (called 24 Jan 2003): The expiration of a rule-defined period is an event for the purposes of Rule 1769. CFJ 1480 (called 05 Jan 2004): An automatic event specified to occur at regular calendar intervals, for example quarterly, happens at its specified time even if that is during a holiday. CFJ 3930 (called 12 Sep 2021): As long as the effects of a holiday are unregulated, making a day into a holiday is unregulated. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rule 2029/1 (Power=4) Town Fountain /\ /\ / \ / \ T his Power-04 Rule (the first ever) was placed to honor The Agoran Spirit Of The Game by G., Steve, Murphy, root and OscarMeyr, Scamsters. Look on our works, ye Marvy, but do always Dance a Powerful Dance. Hail Eris! History: Enacted by P4329 'Remantling' (Goethe), 09 Jun 2002 Amended(1) by SLR ratification, 11 Mar 2019 Annotations: CFJ 1881 (called 25 Jan 2008): This rule does not impose an obligation to always Dance a Powerful Dance, because "Marvy" is currently undefined. CFJ 1736 (called 23 Aug 2007): Failing to hail Eris does not necessarily constitute a violation of this rule. CFJ 3902 (called 19 Mar 2021): Ratifying an SLR increments the version number if it ratifies an error. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rule 2694/1 (Power=1.0) Hats Hats are a secured player switch defaulting to "none" with the following possible values and associated meanings for the player's current focus: none: no particular focus armored helm: competing for wins and in sub-games dunce cap: expressing regret or acknowledging a mistake floral wreath: resolving conflict green eyeshade: maintaining accurate records hard hat: repairing problems in the rules jaunty beret: exploring creative expression jester's cap: bringing levity and humor judicial wig: ruling on CFJs and interpreting the rules knitted cap: finding loopholes and exploits plain hat: simplifying the rules rugged fedora: researching Agoran and Nomic history sleeping cap: reducing eir participation in Agora steampunk hat: creating new game mechanics traditional mortarboard: conducting research and writing theses A player CAN change eir hat at any time by notifying the recordkeepor for eir hat (publicly or privately). The recordkeepor for a player's hat is the player emself. Rules to the contrary notwithstanding, reporting on one's own hat is OPTIONAL. Hats do not otherwise limit or restrict a player's actions in any way, and every player is ENCOURAGED to participate in all aspects of the game regardless of eir current hat. History: Enacted by P9122 'Hats' (Mischief), 23 Jun 2024 Amended(1) by P9171 'Rationalizing Recordkeepors v1.2' (Kate, Murphy, Janet, 4st), 15 Sep 2024 Annotations: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rule 2683/3 (Power=0.5) The Boulder The Absurdor is a sortitioned office. The Boulder's Height is a singleton integer switch defaulting to 0, tracked by the Absurdor. The Boulder's Slope is a singleton integer switch defaulting to 1, tracked by the Absurdor. Each player CAN, once a week, by announcement, push the boulder. When a player pushes the Boulder, its Height is increased by 1. At the beginning of each week, if the boulder was pushed in the previous week at least as many times as the Boulder's Slope, then the Boulder's Slope is increased by 1; otherwise, the Boulder's Height is set to 0, and the Boulder's Slope is set to 1. The Absurdor SHOULD list the largest Height and Slope of the Boulder ever reached in eir report. History: Enacted by P8992 'Camusian Dream v2' (juan), 19 Jun 2023 Amended(1) by P9008 'Always at risk' (snail), 27 Aug 2023 Amended(2) by P9109 'Sortition' (nix, Janet), 12 May 2024 Amended(3) by P9213 'Twice the pride' (Murphy), 17 Feb 2025 Annotations: CFJ 4095 (called 23 Sep 2024): The Height switch is not associated with any specific dimension or direction; merely pushing the Boulder increases its Height, regardless of how a player announces e does so. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rule 2695/3 (Power=0.5) The Veblen The Veblen is a unique indestructible fixed asset tracked by the Absurdor, with ownership entirely restricted to players and Agora. If the Veblen would otherwise be in abeyance, or if it is owned by the Lost and Found Department, it is immediately transferred to Agora. The Veblen cost is a secured singleton positive integer switch tracked by the Absurdor and with default value one. A player CAN pay a fee of X spendies, where X is an integer not less than the current Veblen cost, to set the Veblen cost to X+1. When e does so, if e does not own the Veblen, the Veblen is transferred to em. If the Veblen has not been transferred or devalued within the past month, then a player CAN devalue the Veblen by announcement, thus setting the Veblen cost to half its current value (rounded up). The owner of the Veblen SHOULD conspicuously show off eir ownership of it from time to time. History: Enacted by P9142 'Potential Further Absurdity' (Mischief, Janet), 19 Jul 2024 Amended(1) by P9150 '*sigh*' (Janet), 11 Aug 2024 Amended(2) by P9172 'Veblen Defense' (Mischief), 15 Sep 2024 Amended(3) by P9193 'Devaluation' (Murphy), 18 Nov 2024 Annotations: ------------------------------------------------------------------------